Definition of "gentlemen" []

• Plural form of gentleman. (noun)

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• "In the four-oared race of gentlemen amateurs held last year at Agecroft in Lancashire the prize of silver plate was won by a crew taken from a club composed entirely of colliers, who had been allowed to row under protest, they not being acknowledged as "_gentlemen_ amateurs.""
• "I have seldom slept two in a bed, Dr. Growling, for my gentlemanly habits forbid it; but when circumstances have obliged me, it has been with gentlemen -- _gentlemen_, doctor, "and he laid a stress on the word --" gentlemen, sir, who cut their toe-nails."
• "That, ladies in gentlemen, is the saddest comic I have ever read."