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Definition: Gentlemanlike |
GentlemanlikeAdjective1. Befitting a man of good breeding; "gentlemanly behavior". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gentlemanlike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonym: GentlemanlikeSynonym: gentlemanly (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courtesy | Adjective: courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined; (taste); gentlemanlike; (fashion); gallant; on one's good behavior. |
Fashion | Adjective: fashionable; in fashion; Noun: a la mode, comme il faut; admitted in society, admissible in society; Noun: presentable; conventional; (customary); genteel; well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite; (courteous). |
Nobility | Adjective: noble, exalted; of rank; Noun: princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic; high-, well-born; of gentle blood; genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly; (fashionable); highly respectable. |
Probity | Conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled, high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gentlemanlike |
| Specialty definitions using "gentlemanlike": HORSE GODMOTHER. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "gentlemanlike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prej zotërie (gent, lordly), fisnik (aristocrat, blue-blooded, gallant, generous, gent, gentle, gentleman, gently born, grand, great, high minded, knight, knightly, lofty, moral, nobiliary, noble, nobleman, patrician), bujar (big, bounteous, bountiful, disinterested, free-handed, generous, gentle, good, good hearted, handsome, lavish, liberal, nobleman, open handed, princely, unselfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кавалерски, добре възпитан (highbred, true-bred, well educated), джентълменски. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | èestný (above board, decent, face saving, honest, honorable, honorary, honourable, on the up and up, righteous, right-minded, straight, upstanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | keurig (decent, fitting, jaunty, ladylike, pretty, proper, suitable), beschaafd (accomplished, civilized, courteous, ladylike, polite, well-mannered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ĝentlemaneca, ĝentilhomeca (ladylike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | úriemberhez méltó (gentlemanly), úri (genteel, gentlemanly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | signorile (elegant, ladylike, luxury, refined, Signorile), da gentiluomo (gentlemanly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entlemanlikegay senhor (baboo, boss, compere, gentleman, Lord, man, master, Mister, Mr., mrs., paramount, Sir, you), correto (accurate, all right, anchored, clean-fingered, correct, genteel, incorrupt, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, proper, seemly, sportsmanlike, sporty, true), como um cavalheiro. (various references) politicos (attentive, civil, complaisant, complimentary, considerate, courteous, fair, genteel, mannerly, parliamentary, polite, politely, respectful, well bred), onorabil (creditable, creditably, earnest, honest, honestly, honorable, honorably, honourable, honourably, reputable, respectable, upright, useful, venerable, worthy), manierat (attentive, ceremonious, courteous, courteously, courtly, genteel, gentle, mannered, mannerly, well bred, well mannered, well-behaved), distins (distinguished, eminent, fashionable, gentle, grand, high-bred, refined), delicat (captious, dainty, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, fussy, gentle, gently, mellow, nice, queasy, refined, slender, slim, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, tricky, weak), cinstit (above board, candid, chaste, clean-fingered, correctly, fair, foursquare, guileless, honest, honestly, honest-minded, honorable, honourable, mensurable, on the level, on the up and up, open, reliable, reputable, respectable, righteous, scrupulous, simple, sincere, sincerely, sporting, sportsmanlike, Square, straightforward, true, trustful, truthful, unfeigned, upright, venerable, virtuous), binecrescut (accomplished, genteel, gentle, gentleman, well bred, well educated). (various references) воспитанный (mannerly, well mannered, well-conducted, well-mannered). (various references) džentlmenski. (various references) como caballero (gentlemanly), caballeroso (chivalrous, gentlemanly, sporting, sportsmanlike), caballeresco (chivalrous, gentlemanly, knightly). (various references) gentlemannamässig (gentlemanly), gentlemannalik. (various references) centilmence (gentlemanly, sportsmanlike, sporty). (various references) вихований (accomplished, civilized, educated, nice, well-conditioned, well-conducted), джентельменський (gentlemanly). (various references) quân tử (gentlemanly), lịch sự (affable, chic, civil-spoken, courteous, courtly, gentlemanly, urbane, well-mannered), h o hoa phong nhã; h o hiệp (gentlemanly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gentlemanlike": gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanlikenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-k-l-l-m-n-n-t" | |
-3 letters: enamelling. | |
-4 letters: alignment, alinement, eglantine, elemental, enameling, gentleman, gentlemen, inelegant, lamenting, lineament, meningeal, metalling. | |
-5 letters: antigene, entangle, galenite, gamelike, gantline, gatelike, gelatine, geminate, glenlike, gnatlike, kneeling, knelling, latening, legatine, liegeman, liegemen, ligament, mantling, melanite, metaling, tegminal, tenaille. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-g-i-k-l-l-m-n-n-t" | |
+4 letters: gentlemanlikeness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6E 74 6C 65 6D 61 6E 6C 69 6B 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e n t l e m a n l i k e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006E 0074 006C 0065 006D 0061 006E 006C 0069 006B 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718086787179678078757771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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