Definition of Gentleman

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Gentleman

A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.

One of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man.

One who bears arms, but has no title.

The servant of a man of rank.

A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.

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Gentleman Quotations

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
Theodore Roosevelt

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
Steve Martin

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie Chaplin

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie Chaplin

Gentleman Translations

gentleman in Dutch is heer, gentleman
gentleman in German is Ehrenmann, Herr
gentleman in Portuguese is cavalheiro
gentleman in Swedish is herre

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