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valiant

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adjective

val·​iant ˈval-yənt How to pronounce valiant (audio)
1
: possessing or acting with bravery or boldness : courageous
valiant soldiers
2
: marked by, exhibiting, or carried out with courage or determination : heroic
valiant feats
valiantly adverb
valiantness noun

valiant

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noun

: a valiant person

Example Sentences

Adjective She died last year after a valiant battle with cancer. Despite their valiant efforts, they lost the game. She made a valiant attempt to fix the problem.
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Chalamet gives a valiant effort with Lee, lending him a swagger and an underlying sense of pain. Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022 Thus, the cantaloupe and beans made a valiant effort to sprout and then withered away. Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2022 Braden Kay, Lebanon, Sr, RB – Carried the ball 29 times for 289 yards and three touchdowns in a valiant effort as Warriors came up short against Milford, 42-39 despite running for 453 yards in the contest. Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2022 And my wife, a valiant person, very strong, quiet, very strong woman. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2022 Despite its valiant driver, the race car succumbed to a failure with the differential, was returned to the factory and subsequently sold. Robert Ross, Robb Report, 11 July 2022 But McLaughlin then finished 20th on the IMS road course, qualified for the Indy 500 26th and crashed out in 29th after a valiant surge into the top-10 and settled for 19th at Detroit after spinning out mid-race. Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 6 July 2022 His new book, Because Our Fathers Lied, is a valiant and abrasive attempt to sift through a legacy his father refused to abjure. Noah Kulwin, The New Republic, 6 July 2022 While their valiant action in 2020 certainly averted economic catastrophe, the inability to course-correct in time has certainly created the potential for the next one. Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 2 July 2022
Noun
Still, having ruled out direct intervention, NATO knows that Ukraine’s short-term fate will rest with the valiant, though hugely outmatched, Ukrainians. Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2022 On their initiative, reconciliation was successfully used for the first time in 1980 in a valiant (though unsuccessful) attempt to balance the budget by cutting $8 billion in spending. Philip Wallach, National Review, 8 Apr. 2021 Sunil Dowarkasing, a former government minister, called the effort valiant, but said oil had spread as far up the island’s eastern coast as Ile aux Cerfs, a popular resort island. Max Bearak, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Middle English vailant, valiant, borrowed from Anglo-French vaillant "worthy, strong, courageous," from present participle of valer "to be of worth," going back to Latin valēre "to have strength, be well" — more at wield

First Known Use

Adjective

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

1589, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of valiant was in the 14th century

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