STALWART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stalwart mean? 

• STALWART (noun)
  The noun STALWART has 1 sense:

1. a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)

  Familiarity information: STALWART used as a noun is very rare.

• STALWART (adjective)
  The adjective STALWART has 3 senses:

1. having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships

2. dependable

3. used especially of persons

  Familiarity information: STALWART used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STALWART (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

loyalist; stalwart

Hypernyms ("stalwart" is a kind of...):

admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter (a person who backs a politician or a team etc.)

• STALWART (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships

Synonyms:

hardy; stalwart; stout; sturdy

Context example:

sturdy young athletes

Similar:

robust (sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dependable

Synonyms:

stalwart; stout

Context example:

stout hearts

Similar:

resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination)

Derivation:

stalwartness (the property of being strong and resolute)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Used especially of persons

Synonyms:

stalwart; stouthearted

Context example:

a stouthearted fellow who had an active career in the army

Similar:

brave; courageous (possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching)

 Context examples 

He looked desperately sad and broken; even his stalwart manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under the strain of his much-tried emotions.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We had all risen to our feet, our prisoner breathing hard, with a stalwart constable on each side of him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A call at Meg's, and a refreshing sniff and sip at the Daisy and Demijohn, still further fortified her for the tete-a-tete, but when she saw a stalwart figure looming in the distance, she had a strong desire to turn about and run away.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His form was of the same strong and stalwart contour as ever: his port was still erect, his hair was still raven black; nor were his features altered or sunk: not in one year's space, by any sorrow, could his athletic strength be quelled or his vigorous prime blighted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When first the Professor's eye had lit upon him he had been angry at his interruption at such a time; but now, as he took in his stalwart proportions and recognised the strong young manhood which seemed to emanate from him, his eyes gleamed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She never had much to show when she came home, but was studying nature, I dare say, while she sat for hours, with her hands folded, on the terrace at Valrosa, or absently sketched any fancy that occurred to her, a stalwart knight carved on a tomb, a young man asleep in the grass, with his hat over his eyes, or a curly haired girl in gorgeous array, promenading down a ballroom on the arm of a tall gentleman, both faces being left a blur according to the last fashion in art, which was safe but not altogether satisfactory.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping line, her plaid cloak, which the frosty wind fluttered, gathered close about her, and encouraging us, by precept and example, to keep up our spirits, and march forward, as she said, like stalwart soldiers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)