Crossword clues for gentlemen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gentleman \Gen"tle*man\, n.; pl. Gentlemen. [OE. gentilman nobleman; gentil noble + man man; cf. F. gentilhomme.]
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.
(Her.) One who bears arms, but has no title.
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The servant of a man of rank.
The count's gentleman, one Cesario.
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A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
Note: In Great Britain, the term gentleman is applied in a limited sense to those having coats of arms, but who are without a title, and, in this sense, gentlemen hold a middle rank between the nobility and yeomanry. In a more extended sense, it includes every man above the rank of yeoman, comprehending the nobility. In the United States, the term is applied to men of education and good breeding of every occupation.
Gentleman commoner, one of the highest class of commoners at the University of Oxford.
Gentleman usher, one who ushers visitors into the presence of a sovereign, etc.
Gentleman usher of the black rod, an usher belonging to the Order of the Garter, whose chief duty is to serve as official messenger of the House of Lords.
Gentlemen-at-arms, a band of forty gentlemen who attend the sovereign on state occasions; formerly called gentlemen pensioners. [Eng.]
Wiktionary
n. (plural of gentleman English)
Wikipedia
Gentlemen is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band The Afghan Whigs. It was released in 1993 on Elektra Records in America and Blast First in England and was produced by Greg Dulli. It was reissued on October 28, 2014, in celebration of the album's 21st anniversary.
' Gentlemen' (foaled 1992) is an Argentinian Thoroughbred racehorse. He was the Champion Three-Year-Old Colt in Argentina and then raced successfully in the United States.
Gentlemen is a 2014 Swedish film written by Klas Östergren and directed by Mikael Marcimain based on the novel Gentlemen by Klas Östergren. The film was nominated for the 2015 Nordic Council Film Prize.
Gentlemen is the fourth novel by Swedish author Klas Östergren, published in 1980.
It was translated into English by Tiina Nunnally in 2007. A film adaptation, Gentlemen, directed by Mikael Marcimain, was released in 2014.
Usage examples of "gentlemen".
The wicket, too, was giving him just that assistance which a fast bowler needs, and he would have been a courageous man who would have asserted that the Gentlemen might even yet make a game of it.
Devil's Hand began his breathing exercises and prepared to hoist his sword for the record-breaking attempt, and that was when the first of the extraordinary events that were to entangle us in the affairs of the Eight Skilled Gentlemen occurred.
Long, long ago, the Eight Skilled Gentlemen were said to have enlisted the aid of eight very minor demon-deities, siblings although physically dissimilar.
His official report stated that the girls were actually mermaids who wept pearls instead of tears, so legions of unsavory gentlemen set sail for Hainan to grab girls and make them cry, and I don't want to go into the disgusting details.
Water boiled beneath the Eight Skilled Gentlemen, waves threatened to capsize them, hideous monsters reached out from the banks and sea serpents threatened from below.
The flames of the sky have been extinguished and the death birds of disease are fleeing, so one must assume that ghosts have joined forces with the Eight Skilled Gentlemen and tilted the balance.
The Eight Skilled Gentlemen carried cages that they sometimes used for communication, but I think they contained something else that was guarded by eight demon-deities.
If the solstice didn't take place and the sun got hotter and hotter — but that was where the Eight Skilled Gentlemen took over, and when they finished with Envy he was as harmless as a lamb, which is what they won't eat in the south.
It was the mysterious sound that had announced the solstice ever since a great musical instrument had been built by Eight Skilled Gentlemen, and quite frankly I had completely forgotten that the solstice was today.
Across from him was a cavalier who had dared to love and betray the most powerful and dangerous of all goddesses, and who had once run this very race against Eight Skilled Gentlemen, and who had even driven a team of plunging dragons along a path between the stars — or something almost as dramatic, if one allows for poetic exaggeration.
What I mean is, if it hadn't been for me, the Gentlemen would never have won.
Up to the interval the Gentlemen, who had gone in to make three hundred and fourteen in the fourth innings of the match, had succeeded in compiling one hundred and ten, losing in the process the valuable wickets of Fry, Jackson, Spooner, and MacLaren.
Knox, who had been sent in first on the previous evening to play out the twenty minutes that remained before the drawing of stumps, had succumbed to a combination of fading light and one of Hirst's swervers in the last over on Friday, the Gentlemen, with five wickets in hand, were faced with the task of notching two hundred and four runs in order to secure the victory.
Douglas, the alteration in whose scholastic duties enabled him for the first time to turn out for the Gentlemen, made a number of lovely strokes in the course of his eighty-one.
He had come back from Lord's, where the Gentlemen had been getting the worst of it.