Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Graceful; elegant.
- noun A gentleman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noble; gentle.
- Neat; slender; elegant.
- Polished; refined.
- noun An abbreviation of
gentleman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.
- adjective obsolete Neat; pretty; fine; elegant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
gentleman . - adjective obsolete
Noble ;well-bred ,courteous ;graceful . - adjective obsolete
neat ;pretty ;elegant
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry
- noun informal abbreviation of `gentleman'
- noun a boy or man
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I git tired o 'sittin' around the hotel, doin 'nuthin' but readin 'the papers and trying to be what they call a gent of leisure.
Dave Porter in the Gold Fields The Search for the Landslide Mine Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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Very good tongue-in-cheek approach ... and the gent is right, this is no laughing matter.
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Not arresting an elderly gent from the punjab who is walking down the road with a sword is again, all in good spirit.
Islam? Yes. Gay? Yes. British? No, Oh, OK then. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Perhaps the gent is worried that if he displeases the young lady with his offering of Coke he shall feel the sting of that riding crop.
Coca-Cola Breeds Contempt Among the Classes - The Retroist 2010
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We brought along a man named Inoki Noboyu, a nice old gent from the Japanese embassy office in Boston.
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We brought along a man named Inoki Noboyu, a nice old gent from the Japanese embassy office in Boston.
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For years I went hiking in Mt. Rainier NP, and they had a sign warning that a gent was attacking lone female hikers.
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So I guessed the gent was a bucketshop tout who was tryin 'to interest Piddie in some kind of a deal.
Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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Certainly for a parson the gent is a very quick hitter; but he wrote very square; said he hoped I would allow for the surprise and the agitation of an innocent man; sent me two guineas, too, and said he would make it twenty but he was poor as well as unfortunate; that letter has stuck in my gizzard ever since; can't see the color of felony in it.
Foul Play Charles Reade 1849
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There is no way that even the scientifically and clinically very gifted Nurse Nadine can perform a behind-the-chair abortion, with a cocktail unmbrella or otherwise, on the "gent" involved.
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June 29, 2008