Chevalier

Chevalier is a class of membership in a French or Belgian Order of Chivalry or order of merit.

• a member of certain male orders of knighthood or merit; an archaic word for knight; a chivalrous man; a gallant or courtly gentleman; the term is derived from Old French, from Medieval Latin caballārius, meaning: horseman, mounted soldier or knight. See "cavalier"
• a member of the French Ordre National du Mérite
• a rank in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• a rank in the French Legion d'honneur
• a member of the French Order of Palmes académiques
• the highest honor given to an active member of the Order of DeMolay
• a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold
• a rank in the Belgian Order of the Crown
• a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold II
• the honorific used to address a person holding the rank of chevalier