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as in nobleman
a man of high birth or social position
many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were gentlemen who were risking everything
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as in prince
an honorable and courteous man
was such a gentleman that he offered to call a cab for me
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Recent Examples of gentleman
Well, first of all, the idea that these three gentlemen that have very little background in terms of negotiations or the technical nature of nuclear negotiations going against a hardened Iranian team that's been doing this for decades.
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CBS News,
14 June 2026
And there was one other gentleman, this was so cute.
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Torie Bosch,
STAT,
13 June 2026
So ladies and gentlemen, please welcome songwriter, Hall of Fame, class of 2026, inductee, Taylor Swift.
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Bryan West,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
Martin showed that even a clownish gentleman with a pure heart could woo someone like Tisha Campbell’s Gina.
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Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
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CBS News,
14 June 2026
And there was one other gentleman, this was so cute.
—
Torie Bosch,
STAT,
13 June 2026
So ladies and gentlemen, please welcome songwriter, Hall of Fame, class of 2026, inductee, Taylor Swift.
—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
Martin showed that even a clownish gentleman with a pure heart could woo someone like Tisha Campbell’s Gina.
—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for gentleman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gentleman
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One of the earliest examples emerged in the 16th century, when Venetian nobleman Luigi Cornaro promoted the benefits of a restricted diet in La Vita Sobria (The Art of Living Long), a series of essays describing his personal experiences of cutting certain foods from his diet.
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The sprawling Northamptonshire property was first granted to Norman nobleman Geoffrey of Mowbray following the 11th-century Norman Conquest, later passing to Isabel de Bruce—the grandmother of Scottish king Robert the Bruce—before eventually returning to the English crown in the 14th century.
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After a lengthy, wide-ranging search for their next coach, the Portland Trail Blazers have chosen one of the guys already at the front of the line.
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Alcantara has never been known as a strikeout guy.
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African prince Akeem is trading palaces, from his lavish kingdom to Queens in search of a woman who loves him for him.
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Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.
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Witnesses reported the suspects as two males in a 1990s white, two-door sedan, similar to a Honda Accord, with tinted windows, police said.
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That’s compared with 5% of cisgender male and 11% of cisgender female students.
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These Virginia aristocrats had been raised on the same Enlightenment thinkers—David Hume and Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire—as John Adams and Samuel Adams had.
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In Sally Potter’s 1992 masterpiece Orlando, Virginia Woolf’s classic novel of a British aristocrat who is born in the Elizabethan era and goes on to live for hundreds of years—oh, and who also changes genders at around the age of 30—is brought to bold and brilliant visual life.
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Not the fun stuff — waving down at your antlike neighbors, chatting up green alien dudes — but the dicey stuff like zero gravity and sound and communication distortions?
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But when danger walks in courtesy of a very large and formidable alien, Kara walks out and throws hands at the dude.
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In 2014 she was made a dame, the female equivalent of a knight, for services to the arts and to charity.
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The music video, directed by Lance Oppenheim and Pablo Rochat, opens with Bridgers in a renaissance fair outfit, sitting in the backseat of a motorcycle as an armored knight drives.
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Witnesses expressed shock over the incident, with one man arriving to his Walmart to shop and finding the parking lot covered in crime scene tape.
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But some have faced pushback, including when two Boise men faced the wrath of their homeowners association for replacing their grass with turf, in part to save water.
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“Gentleman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gentleman. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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