Usually means: Courteous, honorable man of integrity.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word gentleman:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gentleman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. gentleman: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gentleman: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gentleman, gentleman: Wordnik
  5. gentleman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. Gentleman, gentleman: Wiktionary
  7. gentleman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. gentleman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. gentleman: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. gentleman: Dictionary.com
  11. gentleman: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  13. Gentleman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. gentleman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. gentleman: Rhymezone
  16. Gentleman (m), gentleman, gentleman (de), gentleman (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. gentleman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Gentleman: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. gentleman: Free Dictionary
  20. gentleman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. gentleman: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. gentleman: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. gentleman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  24. gentleman: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Gentleman: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gentleman: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gentleman: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. GENTLEMAN, GENTLEMAN, GENTLEMAN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gentleman: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the gentleman: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gentlemanlike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly historical) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK law) an armiferous man ranking below a knight.
noun:  Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
noun:  (derogatory) An effeminate or oversophisticated man.
noun:  (polite term of address) Any man.
noun:  (usually historical, sometimes derogatory) An amateur or dabbler in any field, particularly those of independent means.
noun:  (cricket) An amateur player, particularly one whose wealth permits him to forego payment.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.

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