Noun

(gintlemen)

(Irish)

* {{quote-book, year=1853, author=L. Maria Child, title=Isaac T. Hopper, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=One look from that Quaker gintleman is worth all the praching and praying that be in you." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, title=The Delectable Duchy, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Sure enough it was a millstone, and a very neat one; and the saint, having raised a bit of a laugh, went on like a cheap-jack: "Av there's any gintleman prisunt wid an eye for millstones, I'll throuble him to turn ut here. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Elbert Hubbard, title=Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=There is no finer man on earth than your "thrue Irish gintleman'," and Henry Clay had not only all the highest and most excellent traits of the "' gintleman ," but a few also of his worst. }}

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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*, chapter=7

, 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.