gentleman
Plural: gentlemen
Noun
- a man of refinement
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
- Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
- Any man.
- A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK law) an armigerous man ranking below a knight.
- An effeminate or oversophisticated man.
- An amateur or dabbler in any field, particularly those of independent means.
- An amateur player, particularly one whose wealth permits him to forego payment.
Examples
- Being a gentleman, Robert was entitled to shove other commoners into the gongpit but he still had to jump out of the way of the knights to avoid the same fate himself.
- Please escort this gentleman to the gentlemen's room.
- Well, la-di-da, aren't you just a proper gentleman?
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English gentilman, morphologically gentle + man, partial calque of Old French gentilhome.
Synonyms
gentleman's gentleman, man, valet, valet de chambre, Percy, bading, big girl's blouse, cockney, cot-quean, cupcake, dilettante, dudelet, fairy, fakaleiti, femboy, gentleman, ginch, girl's blouse, girlyman, janegirl, jessie, nancy, nancy pants, nancyboy, pansy, poof, poofter, posy sniffer, pretty boy, puss-gentleman, quiche-eater, sahib, sissy, softling, soy boy, swish, twink, zenana
Scrabble Score: 12
gentleman: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgentleman: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gentleman: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary