Lancelot

plural Lancelots · alternative Launcelot

1. countableuncountableArthurian legendOne of the Knights of the Round Table, a lover of Guinevere.
2. countableuncountableA male given name from the Germanic languages.

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   "What's the first name?" - - - "I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!" "Good God!" said Archie. "It couldn't really be that, could it?" Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest. "It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."

   1921, P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, page 162

   Synonyms: Lance

3. countableuncountableA surname.
4. countableuncountableA ghost town in the Mid North region, South Australia, Australia.