gentleman-at-arms

1. 1.

   one of 40 gentlemen who attend the British sovereign on state occasions

   Broadergentleman

Questions about gentleman-at-arms

What does gentleman-at-arms mean?

gentleman-at-arms means "one of 40 gentlemen who attend the British sovereign on state occasions".

How many syllables are in gentleman-at-arms?

gentleman-at-arms has 5 syllables: gent-le-ma-n-a-t-arms. The stress falls on "ma".

Is gentleman-at-arms a common word?

gentleman-at-arms is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.