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GENTLEFOLKS

Definition: GENTLEFOLKS

GENTLEFOLKS

Noun plural

1. Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GENTLEFOLKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)



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Crosswords: GENTLEFOLKS

English words defined with "GENTLEFOLKS": Cut and longtailGentlefolk. (references)

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Modern Translations: GENTLEFOLKS

Language Translations for "GENTLEFOLKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

aristokraci (aristocracy, gentility, gentle). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نبلاء (marquis, nobleman), ‏أشراف. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хора от добро семейство (gentlefolk), високопоставени хора (gentlefolk). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vznešení lidé (gentlefolk). (various references)

   

French

  

nobles. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

úriemberek (gentlefolk, gentlemen), előkelő emberek (gentlefolk). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entlefolksgay

   

Portuguese

  

suavizar (allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, ease, mitigate, palliate, salve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tone down, unload). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

знать (be acquainted with, be aware, gentlefolk, knew, know, like the book, notables, wis, wot), дворянство (gentlefolk, gentry, knighthood, noblesse). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

plemstvo (aristocracy, gentlefolk, gentlehood, nobility, nobleness, noblesse, peerage). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gentes de buena familia (gentlefolk), nobleza (aristocracy, gentlefolk, gentlehood, honesty, nobility, nobleness, noblesse, peerage, uprightness). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

herrskapsfolk. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

soylular (aristocracy, nobility), kibarlar (gentlefolk, polite society, the fashionables, the nobilities, the upper ten), asiller (aristocracy, noblesse, peerage, the upper ten). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

знать (baronage, gentlefolk, nobility, notable), панство (gentlefolk). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: GENTLEFOLKS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-k-l-l-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: gentlefolk.

-3 letters: felstone, skeleton.

-4 letters: fellest, felloes, gentles, keelson, ketones, longest, oneself, solfege, stollen.

-5 letters: felloe, felons, fleets, flense, flongs, folles, genets, gentes, gentle, gleeks, gleets, gonefs, kelson, ketols, ketone, ketose, klongs, kneels, knells, knolls, lentos, leones, longes, nestle, sklent, soften, solgel, stolen, telson, tokens.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GENTLEFOLKS


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

47 45 4E 54 4C 45 46 4F 4C 4B 53

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 01001100 01000101 01000110 01001111 01001100 01001011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#76 &#69 &#70 &#79 &#76 &#75 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 004E 0054 004C 0045 0046 004F 004C 004B 0053

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

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

4139485446394049464553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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