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The answer GENTLEMAN has 31 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of gentleman in various dictionaries:
noun - a man of refinement
noun - a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
A man of gentle or noble birth or superior social position: “He’s too much a gentleman to be a scholar” (Aphra Behn).
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Fellow in desperate tangle with men |
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A man of independent means who does not need to have a wage-paying job. |
A man of gentle or noble birth or superior social position: "He's too much a gentleman to be a scholar ( Aphra Behn). |
a polite way of talking to or referring to a man: |
a man who is polite and behaves well towards other people, especially women: |
a man of a high social class: |
a man who is polite and behaves well toward other people: |
Gentleman is often used as a polite way of referring to any man: |
infml In speech, a gentleman often means simply a man: |
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In modern parlance, a gentleman (from gentle and man, translating the Old French gentilz hom) is any man of good, courteous conduct. * Originally, a gentleman was a man of the lowest rank of the English gentry, standing below an esquire and above a yeoman. By definition, this category included the younger sons of the younger sons of peers and the younger sons of baronets, knights, and esquires in perpetual succession, and thus the term captures the common denominator of gentility (and often armigerousness) shared by both constituents of the English aristocracy: the peerage and the gentry. In this sense, it corresponds to the French gentilhomme ("nobleman"), which in Great Britain, has long meant only the peerage. Maurice Keen points to the category of "gentlemen" in this context as thus constituting "the nearest contemporary English equivalent of the noblesse of France". The notion of "gentlemen" as encapsulating the members of the hereditary ruling class was what the rebels under John |