(n.) A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.
(n.) One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man.
(n.) One who bears arms, but has no title.
(n.) The servant of a man of rank.
(n.) A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I say to the honourable gentleman we won’t get Britain building unless we keep our economy going.” Later, Marie called in to radio station LBC radio to say that the new Labour leader needed to “change the way he does things, mix things up each week and really not let the Conservatives know which side it’s coming from – firing on all corners but doing it in a calm and collected way”.
(2) I was told very politely by [Sony Radio Academy awards committee chairman] Tim Blackmore, a true gentleman, I did not resent it at all.
(3) Ladies and Gentleman, thank you for joining us this morning.
(4) "He said it was scarcely suitable for a gentleman let alone ladies."
(5) But the Depp dog furore is a perfect example of the different approach Joyce will take to leading the Nationals – the rural-based minor party in the governing Coalition that has in recent years had a series of gentlemanly leaders who, wherever possible, have settled differences with their Coalition parties quietly, created public fusses only rarely, and international incidents never.
(6) Amelia Gentleman writes on social affairs for the Guardian and was one of the research team on Reading the Riots Prison isn't always a suitable punishment : I met Danielle Corns, a 19-year-old student with no previous convictions, who briefly took two left footed trainers out of a shop, thought better of it, and left them outside the shop.
(7) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(8) But then the gentleman is quite old and has suffered two strokes in the last few years – so the comparatively slow rate at which he was fleeing was probably taken as provocation.
(9) Ideally they should also possess the sort of clipped tones that make vulgarities sound like Virgil and the sort of wardrobe that dresses up deviousness as a gentleman's sport.
(10) The librarian – he was a very tall gentleman with a pretty dark beard – went off and figured it out.
(11) Since 1972 there has been a gentleman's agreement between the ministry and the tobacco branch concerning the size and the content of tobacco advertising.
(12) The council will continue to work with this gentleman and his family to ensure that his needs are appropriately met and that he is supported to lead as independent a life as possible.
(13) is his immediate reply, which of course makes perfect sense, because Reprezent's listeners, keen as they are to hear new music, would no doubt prefer Psy's latest song Gentleman.
(14) If the honourable gentleman wants to finish his question in an orderly way, he can do so."
(15) Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers The two gentleman pictured above foreshadowed new national security laws that will give Asio more powers to snoop on computers and more powers to coordinate with other agencies during investigations.
(16) It was the story of a Bangladeshi gentleman whose home was washed out 1km to sea that drove me into the charity sector.
(17) The Democratic Unionist assembly member for South Down, Jim Wells, described McGrady as "a true gentleman and a tireless campaigner" for the people of his constituency.
(18) The latest fashion must-have for the classless in Cleveland sports a picture of his face with rape in block capitals underneath, making a nuanced reference to allegations against the prospective first gentleman.
(19) On Sunday, the News of the World became the first British newspaper to use paparazzi pictures of the prince since the former PCC chairman Lord Wakeham negotiated a "gentleman's agreement" that would prevent such photographs until he finished his full-time education.
(20) "The gentleman, opening the circular, hinged portcullis on the front of his helmet, offered his services; and perceiving that her modesty declined what her situation rendered necessary, took her up in his arms without further delay and carried her down the hill."
Gentlemen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Gentleman
Example Sentences:
(1) Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Charles Antaki, he's here all week, try the Imodium.
(2) He could say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, today we have totally defeated Isis,’ and it wouldn’t sound good, OK, all right?
(3) Watson asked if the donations from Grugeon and McCloy were disguised, “because they were both gentlemen who could make money if they had a favourable decision in respect of Wallalong”.
(4) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
(5) 2.05am BST Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 4th We have a pitcher's duel ladies and gentlemen!
(6) Rooney, Terry, Giggs … Footballers are hardly the gentlemen of your day, are they, Ron?
(7) At the Cambridge Corn Exchange last week, the two gentlemen blocking my view of Damien Rice were about 55.
(8) The TV ad campaign features the Sapeurs – men who make the transformation from farmers, taxi drivers and labourers to cigar-wielding gentlemen dressed to the nines in bowler hats and tailored suits – of the Republic of the Congo capital Brazzaville coming together after a day's work.
(9) Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to Twitter… Thaddeus Stewart (@thaddeustewart) Ladies and gentlemen: please welcome the lovely @kristenlisa8 to twitter.
(10) They have a sort of stubbornness.” He later deals with hecklers at a Fifa HQ press event : “Listen, gentlemen, we are not in a bazaar .
(11) In 1936 Lee was briefly drummer with trumpeter Buck Clayton's Fourteen Gentlemen of Harlem and later toured with singer Ethel Waters's orchestra.
(12) I half expected it to end with the Houser brothers dressed as Papa Lazarou from League of Gentlemen staring into the camera and whispering seductively, "you all live in Los Santos now".
(13) In India, teachers are feared and can’t be your friends’ • Meet a student from... China: ‘Chinese students think British boys are gentlemen, but when they get drunk they go crazy’
(14) Finally, ladies and gentlemen (or should I say boys and girls?
(15) Russell drops back and throws sideline, up and over the head of Rice - the Seahawks are three and out, much to the delight of the southern dames and gentlemen in the crowd.
(16) It continues one of the longest-running gentlemen's agreements in economic history, which decrees that the IMF must always be run by a European, while an American has to head the World Bank.
(17) 11.35am BST Ladies and gentlemen, we have players on courts.
(18) Last summer as part of world Shakespeare season celebrating the Olympics, the Globe invited companies to come and perform every play the Bard wrote in 37 different languages – including Troilus and Cressida in Maori, Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona (spoken in Zimbabwe and Zambia), and the Henry VI plays divided among the Balkans in Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian.
(19) I think Essex will lead the way for Ukip in May, as it already does with Douglas Carswell in Clacton.” Ukip’s aims have changed since the last election when its then leader Lord Pearson struck gentlemen’s agreements not to field candidates in the seats of anti-EU rightwingers.
(20) These gentlemen are getting excited about kick off, how about you?