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Gentleman   /dʒˈɛntəlmən/  /dʒˈɛnəlmən/   Listen
noun
Gentleman  n.  (pl. gentlemen)  
1.
A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.
2.
One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man.
3.
(Her.) One who bears arms, but has no title.
4.
The servant of a man of rank. "The count's gentleman, one Cesario."
5.
A man, irrespective of condition; used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc. Note: In Great Britain, the term gentleman is applied in a limited sense to those having coats of arms, but who are without a title, and, in this sense, gentlemen hold a middle rank between the nobility and yeomanry. In a more extended sense, it includes every man above the rank of yeoman, comprehending the nobility. In the United States, the term is applied to men of education and good breeding of every occupation.
Gentleman commoner, one of the highest class of commoners at the University of Oxford.
Gentleman usher, one who ushers visitors into the presence of a sovereign, etc.
Gentleman usher of the black rod, an usher belonging to the Order of the Garter, whose chief duty is to serve as official messenger of the House of Lords.
Gentlemen-at-arms, a band of forty gentlemen who attend the sovereign on state occasions; formerly called gentlemen pensioners. (Eng.)





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"Gentleman" Quotes from Famous Books



... young man, and did not intend to bind myself to her by the ties of marriage, I should not only consent to a union which seemed for her happiness, but that as a man of honour it was my duty to use my influence with her in favour of the match. "With your experience," said the kind old gentleman, "you ought to know that a time would come when you would regret both having lost this opportunity, for your love is sure to become friendship, and then another love will replace that which you now think as firm as the ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... very evening I was to have brought him a gentleman from the city who does not know him and will I believe advance ...
— The School For Scandal • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
... of Jeremy the prophet, and Jeremy Taylor the divine, but your other Jeremy is a gentleman I am ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... Gourgues, a French gentleman, who went in 1568 to Florida, to avenge the massacre of the French by the Spaniards there. (Mr. Carter, in the ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth
... not a straight game to fit me out with a pair of hip rubber boots miles too large for me and then sit and howl when you see me losing my life in them. Well, you needn't come into the mire if you don't want to, but you can at least be gentleman enough to pass me the end of that pole that is lying ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett


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