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GENTIL

Definition: GENTIL

GENTIL

Adjective & noun

1. Gentle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GENTIL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Gentil \Gen"til\, adjective. noun Gentle. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)



Crosswords: GENTIL

Etymologies containing "GENTIL": GENTEEL, Gentilly, Genty. (references)
Non-English Usage: "GENTIL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (affable, amiable, benignant, bland, charming, civilized, complacent, crude, decent, friendly, genial, gentile, gentle, good, good tempered, good-natured, hearty, kind, kindly, lovely, mannerly, nice, obliging, pretty, soft, sweet, tender), Papiamen (courteous, polite, well-mannered), Portuguese (affable, bonny, canny, dapper, delicate, dinky, elegant, friendly, kind, nice, pleasing, polite), Romanian (amiable, courteous, gentle, polite, politely), Spanish (comely, decent, genteel, gentile, graceful, nice, sonsy), Swedish (fine, handsome, stylish).

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Modern Usage: GENTIL

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tout le monde il est gentil Tout le monde il est beau (1972)

Le Bourgeois gentil mec (1969)

Tout le monde il est gentil (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: GENTIL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Amor Ch'al Cor Gentil (reference)

  • Cessez d Etre Gentil Soyez Vrai [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Das Gentil Haus (reference)

  • El Gentil Dragon Rojo/the Gentle Red Dragon (reference)

  • Gentil Petit Diable Et Autres Contes de La Rue Broca (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: GENTIL

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Gabon

The protesters fled but started to riot, burning and looting shops and residences in Port Gentil. (references)

Gabon

In June between 200 and 300 protestors from the "Collective of Unemployed of Port Gentil" set up a barricade on the main road between the center of the country's second largest city, Port Gentil, and the city's oil export facility to protest unemployment and the large number of noncitizens hired by local businesses. (references)

Political Rights

Gabon

The PGP enjoys strong support in Port Gentil, the center of the country's petroleum industry, and among the Myene ethnic group. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: GENTIL

"GENTIL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "GENTIL" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)64.29%9117,287
Noun (singular)35.71%5157,705
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: GENTIL

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "GENTIL": falcon-gentil.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GENTIL

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

port gentil

7

gentil

4

claudia gentil

3

gentil pascal

3

gentil homme

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: GENTIL

Derivations

Words beginning with "GENTIL": gentile, gentiles, gentilesse, gentilesses, gentilities, gentility. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "GENTIL"

Words rhyming with "GENTIL" (pronounced 'Gen"til'): Dentil, Interdentil, Ixtil, lentil, Pontil, Ramtil. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GENTIL

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tingle.

Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n-t"

-1 letter: elint, glint, ingle, inlet, legit, tinge.

-2 letters: gelt, gent, gien, gilt, glen, lent, lien, line, ling, lint, lite, nite, tile, tine, ting.

-3 letters: eng, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, leg, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, net, nil, nit, teg, tel, ten, tie, til, tin.

-4 letters: el, en, et, in, it, li, ne, ti.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n-t"
 

+1 letter: atingle, belting, elating, eluting, felting, gelatin, genital, gentile, gillnet, glinted, glisten, kinglet, lentigo, letting, lighten, lignite, melting, pelting, ringlet, singlet, telling, tingled, tingler, tingles, welting, winglet.

 

+2 letters: agential, alerting, alginate, altering, atheling, beetling, beltings, bleating, cleating, clefting, cultigen, delating, deleting, diligent, electing, exalting, exulting, feltings, fettling, fileting, fleeting, galenite, gantline, gelatine, gelating, gelatins, gelation, genitals, gentiles, gentling, gillnets, gleeting, glistens, glutelin, gnatlike, integral, kinglets, latening, leftwing, legatine, legating, legation, letching, ligament, lightens, lignites, lingiest, longtime, metaling, nestling, nettling, penlight, pestling, pettling, pleating, relating, retiling, ringlets, settling, singlets, sleeting, smelting, stealing, steeling, sterling, tangible, tanglier, teazling, tegminal, telexing, tinglers, tinglier, toweling, trebling, triangle, valeting, weltings, winglets.

 

+3 letters: alginates, alignment, allegiant, analgetic, anglesite, antiglare, athelings, billeting, bulleting, chelating, cingulate, clientage, clingiest, closeting, colleting, cultigens, deflating, delisting, depleting, desalting, detailing, earthling, eglantine, elevating, eliciting, emulating, enlighten, enlisting, enologist, entailing, entitling, entoiling, exigently, extolling, faltering, fellating, fettlings, filleting, filtering, fletching, gainliest, galantine, galenites, galleting, gangliest, gantlines, gelatines, gelations, gelignite, genetical, geniality, genitalia, genitalic, genitally, genitival, gentility, giantlike, gimleting, glistened, glutamine, glutelins, gnarliest, granulite, haltering, helmeting, hosteling, ignitable, ignitible, indulgent, inelegant, inletting, integrals, jangliest, jingliest, jungliest, kingliest, lamenting, lathering, lecturing, legations, lengthier, lengthily, lettering, levanting, ligaments, lightened, lightener, lightness, listening, littering, loitering, longevity, longitude, lustering, meltingly, metalling, metheglin, molesting, negligent, nestlings, nightless, nightlife, paltering, pelleting, peltering, penlights, reflating, relenting, reletting, relisting, relucting, remelting, replating, reslating, restyling, resulting, retailing, retelling, retitling, retooling, revolting, selecting, settlings, singleton, sklenting, slangiest, sleuthing, stealings, sterlings, stingless, streeling, tableting, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teaseling, teasingly, teazeling, teemingly, telegenic, telfering, tellingly, telneting, tillering, tingliest, tinseling, toileting, towelings, towelling, trameling, traveling, treadling, treddling, trembling, triangles, troweling, tunneling, tweedling, unbelting, vetchling, vigilante, weltering, wrestling.

 

+4 letters: alienating, alightment, alignments, alimenting, allegation, analgetics, anglesites, antilogies, antiplague, beclothing, belittling, blanketing, blathering, blattering, blethering, blistering, blithering, blustering, bolstering, centupling, clattering, clientages, clingstone, clustering, cluttering, collecting, completing, congenital, corelating, covetingly, datelining, defaulting, deflecting, delegating, delegation, delighting, delimiting, depilating, desolating, diligently, disgruntle, earthlings, eglantines, electroing, elongating, elongation, eluviating, embattling, englutting, enlightens, enologists, entangling, enticingly, escalating, ethnologic, ethylating, etiolating, evaluating, evangelist, exactingly, excitingly, explanting, exploiting, exultingly, eyeletting, fetchingly, flattening, flattering, fleetingly, fletchings, flittering, flustering, fluttering, fosterling, gadolinite, galantines, galivanted, gantleting, gelatinize, gelatinous, gelignites, generalist, generality, geniculate, genteelism, gentilesse, gillnetted, gillnetter, glauconite, gleization, glistening, glistering, glittering, glutamines, gluttonies, granulites, guillotine, guiltiness, hatcheling, holstering, hostelling, inflecting, ingestible, intaglioed, intangible, integrable, integrally, invigilate, lacerating, lactogenic, lateraling, laterizing, laureating, leafleting, leathering, leistering, lengthiest, lengthwise, lentigines, letterings, levigating, levigation, levitating, liberating, lighteners, lightening, lightering, lightplane, lobstering, longitudes, lutestring, martingale, metalising, metalizing, metheglins, multigenic, multirange, negational, negatively, neglecting, negotiable, nightlifes, nongenital, nucleating, obsoleting, ontologies, outdueling, outfeeling, outleaping, outselling, outtelling, outyelling, outyelping, peculating, penologist, philtering, plastering, plateauing, plummeting, pregenital, prelecting, realtering, rebottling, reclothing, reelecting, reflecting, refloating, regelating, regimental, regulating, regulation, relegating, relegation, relighting, relocating, replanting, replotting, resaluting, resettling, resmelting, retackling, retailings, retellings, retiringly, rivetingly, rouletting, septupling, sextupling, sheltering, signalment, singletons, singletree, skeltering, slathering, slightness, slithering, spangliest, starveling, stenciling, sterlingly, stringless, subletting, sweltering, tabletting, tangential, tasselling, teaselling, teazelling, telegonies, televising, telnetting, telphering, temptingly, theologian, tinselling, toenailing, tolerating, tonguelike, towellings, toweringly, trailering, tramelling, trammeling, travelling, trellising, trigeminal, trolleying, trowelling, tunnelling, ulcerating, ungodliest, unsettling, unsteeling, urogenital, vetchlings, vigilantes, willingest, wrestlings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GENTIL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 45 4E 54 49 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 004E 0054 0049 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

413948544346

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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