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Gentlemanlike

Definition: Gentlemanlike

Gentlemanlike

Adjective

1. 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: Gentlemanlike

Synonym: gentlemanly (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Gentlemanlike

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Gentlemanlike

Specialty definitions using "gentlemanlike": HORSE GODMOTHER. (references)

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Modern Translations: Gentlemanlike

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

воспитанный (mannerly, well mannered, well-conducted, well-mannered). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

džentlmenski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

como caballero (gentlemanly), caballeroso (chivalrous, gentlemanly, sporting, sportsmanlike), caballeresco (chivalrous, gentlemanly, knightly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gentlemannamässig (gentlemanly), gentlemannalik. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

centilmence (gentlemanly, sportsmanlike, sporty). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

вихований (accomplished, civilized, educated, nice, well-conditioned, well-conducted), джентельменський (gentlemanly). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Gentlemanlike

Derivations

Words beginning with "gentlemanlike": gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanlikenesses. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Gentlemanlike

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Gentlemanlike


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

47 65 6E 74 6C 65 6D 61 6E 6C 69 6B 65

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 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006E 0074 006C 0065 006D 0061 006E 006C 0069 006B 0065

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

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

41718086787179678078757771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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