Abbreviation of Cavan.

Abbreviation of cavaliers. / Abbreviation of cavalries.

(informal, military) Air cavalry

(music, informal) The two one-act operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci presented as a single event.

A warning. / A qualification or exemption. / (law) A formal objection. / (law) A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.

(transitive, regarded by some as nonstandard) To qualify a statement with a caveat or proviso. / (transitive, law) To formally object to something.

(military, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses. / (military, countable) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.

Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy. / (figuratively) Something whose flavour is too fine for the vulgar taste.

Used as a warning to anyone buying something that there might be unforeseen problems or faults with what is bought.

Synonym of guinea pig (“rodent”) / Any rodent in the Caviidae.