gentleman
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noun- 1.
Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
- 2.
(broadly, polite, term of address)(by extension; polite term of address) Any man.
Please escort this gentleman to the gentlemen's room.
Đồng nghĩa: sahib
- 3.
(historical)(chiefly historical) 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.
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.
- 4.
(derogatory)An effeminate or oversophisticated man.
Well, la-di-da, aren't you just a proper gentleman?
Đồng nghĩa: cockney, puss-gentleman, sissy, bading, big girl's blouse, cockney, cot-quean, cupcake, dudelet, fakaleiti, fairy, femboy, gentleman, ginch, girl's blouse, girlyman, janegirl, jessie, nancy, nancyboy, nancy pants, pansy, Percy, poof, poofter, posy sniffer, pretty boy, puss-gentleman, quiche-eater, sissy, softling, soy boy, swish, twink, zenana
- 5.
(derogatory, historical, sometimes, usually)(usually historical, sometimes derogatory) An amateur or dabbler in any field, particularly those of independent means.
Đồng nghĩa: dilettante
- 6.
(cricket) An amateur player, particularly one whose wealth permits him to forego payment.
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From Middle English gentilman, morphologically gentle + man, fro gentilhome.