Noun

(en noun)

The male ruler of a barony.

A male member of the lowest rank of British nobility.

A particular cut of beef, made up of a double sirloin.

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby-Dick) ,

Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.

A person of great power in society, especially in business and politics.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

(legal, obsolete) A husband.

baron and feme: husband and wife

Noun

(gentlemen)

A well?mannered or charming man.

A man of breeding or higher class.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman' s wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.}}

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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.

A polite term referring to a man.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}

A polite form of address to a group of men.

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Toilets intended for use by men.

(lb) A cricketer of independent wealth, who does not (require to) get paid to play the sport.

Amateur.

*2004 , Mary N. Woods, "The First Professional: Benjamin Henry Latrobe", in, Keith L. Eggener, editor, American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader , (Routledge), electronic edition, ISBN 0203643682, p.119 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-dDKjSIDdksC&pg=PA119&dq=gentleman]:

Latrobe had extensive dealings with Jefferson, the most prominent gentleman- architect in the United States.