1,400 new words in our dictionary! — Parasocial, glow-up, promposal & more
1,400 new words in our dictionary! — More

gentleman

noun

ˈjen-tᵊl-mən How to pronounce gentleman (audio)
Definition of gentlemannext
1
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

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms
2
as in guy
an adult male human being ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats

Synonyms & Similar Words
3
as in prince
an honorable and courteous man was such a gentleman that he offered to call a cab for me

Synonyms & Similar Words

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of gentleman Hafidh Ameir Hassan became Tanzania’s first gentleman in 2021, when his wife took office as the country's first female president following the death of President John Magufuli. — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026 In this 1985 novel, recently reissued by NYRB, Louise has returned to the splendor and decay of New Orleans, where one drunken yet charming Southern gentleman in particular catches her eye. — Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026 Portraying a character who is an all-around gentleman was the biggest challenge for Skarsgård. — Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026 On Thursday, an older gentleman started at the sign with a green arrow redirecting patrons on the post-construction path. — Idaho Statesman, 30 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gentleman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gentleman
  1. nobleman
  2. guy
  3. prince
  4. male
  5. aristocrat
  6. dude
  7. knight
  8. man
Noun
  • They are also called the Elgin Marbles, after the Scottish nobleman Lord Elgin, who removed them from the Acropolis in Athens in 1801 and sold them to the British government, which has housed them in the British Museum for nearly two centuries.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Analysis revealed the work to be by Velázquez and, interestingly, showed that the artist made a number of revisions to the nobleman’s dress and armor.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of nobleman
Noun
  • Then Leigh noticed a skinny guy clad in a ratty Daniel Johnston T-shirt, his hair a feral mess.
    — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
  • There’s more pressure on a guy who’s explicitly out there to fair-catch the ball.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of guy
Noun
  • The prince served two tours of duty in Afghanistan as a helicopter pilot during a 10-year stint with the British Army.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026
  • In Great Britain even a prince lost his title due to his involvement with Epstein.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of prince
Noun
  • The second, a runway show in February, expanded upon its connection to new money by fashioning buff male models as oligarchs and über thin female ones as their party girl acolytes.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The mostly male, mostly young consumers of this content came up in the pandemic days of meme stock windfalls, speculative crypto investments, and hypebeast product drops.
    — Adam Erace, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of male
Noun
  • But a motley array of other people—advocates of free love, avant-garde painters, grifters fleecing ex-aristocrats—took advantage of the chaos to promote their own agendas.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The place to indulge in the unbridled opulence of an early 20th-century aristocrat.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of aristocrat
Noun
  • Even as Swift shines in the light of holy matrimony, there are still plenty of lame dudes out there for Taylor to crush across three-minute pop masterstrokes — and, God-willing, there always will be.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Just as O’Malley and Rahill’s work is infatuated with toxic masculinity and fratty hopecore, Bensinger’s is obsessed with sheepish dude-empaths hiding beneath layers of uneasy bravado.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of dude
Noun
  • Published by Curvebender in honor of Martin’s centenary, the book features a new foreword written by another knight of the turntable, Sir Paul McCartney.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Cuban Knight Anole Cuban knight anoles are the bigger, greener cousins to a brown anole.
    — Alex Harris August 25, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of knight
Noun
  • Thin partitions marked an early attempt to slice the space into smaller rooms, but the original brick walls remained bare, shivering with cobwebs, where someone had pasted a picture of a man, holy hands bracketing a redbrick heart.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • People arrested at these checkpoints have virtually no legal recourse and many young men have subsequently been forced into the military.
    — Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of man

Browse Nearby Words

gentlefolk
gentleman
gentleman farmer
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Gentleman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gentleman. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

Copy Citation
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of argot

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

More Commonly Mispronounced Words

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

7 Great Ways to Say 'Great'

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World

Why do we 'bury the lede?'
See More

Popular

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

7 Great Ways to Say 'Great'

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
image of the words cracker fly and sale arranged in a triangle with the word fire in the middle
Triple Play Quiz Find the word that pairs with each of the three g...
See All