Difference between Gallant and Courageous

Gallant

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: brave, valiant honourable grand, noble Very polite with women.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (dated) fashionable young man, who is polite and attentive to women variant of topgallant

Courageous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a person, displaying or possessing courage.Of an action, that requires courage.

Example sentence: When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.