valet

Meanings

Plural: valets

Noun

a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
A person employed to clean or park cars.
A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.

Verb

serve as a personal attendant to
To serve (someone) as a valet.
To clean and service (a car), as a valet does.
To leave (a car) with a valet to park it.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French valet, from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas). Doublet of varlet.

Synonyms

butler, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man, parking attendant, valet de chambre

Scrabble Score: 8

valet is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
valet is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
valet is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

valet is a valid Words With Friends word