gentleman

1. 1.

   a man of refinement

   Broaderman

   NarrowerDongentgentleman-at-arms
2. 2.

   a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer

   “Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man”

   Synonymsvaletvalet de chambregentleman's gentlemanman

   Broadermanservantbody servant

Other forms of gentleman

plural

gentlemans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gentleman

What does gentleman mean?

gentleman means "a man of refinement". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gentleman?

gentleman has 3 syllables: gent-le-man. The stress falls on "gent". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛntəlmən/.

What is another word for gentleman?

Close synonyms include valet, valet de chambre, gentleman's gentleman, man. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gentleman a common word?

gentleman is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.