gentlewoman

Other forms of gentlewoman

plural

gentlewomans·

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 gentlewoman

What does gentlewoman mean?

gentlewoman means "a woman of refinement".

How many syllables are in gentlewoman?

gentlewoman has 4 syllables: gent-le-wom-an. The stress falls on "gent". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛntəlˌwʊmən/.

What is another word for gentlewoman?

Close synonyms include dame, madam, ma'am, lady. 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 gentlewoman a common word?

gentlewoman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gentlewoman?

7 words rhyme with gentlewoman. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.