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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

gentlemen en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /-ɛn/
  • /d͡ʒɛn.təl.mən/ (General-American)
  • /-ən/
  • /-ɛn/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈd͡ʒɛn.təl.mɪn/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, plural) plural of gentleman
    form of gentleman
  2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of gentlemen's: a men's room, a lavatory intended for use by men.
    • There are quays there and lamps and some squares of grass; a ladies and gentlemen, and a cinema. 1941, Joyce Cary, chapter XLIV, in Herself Surprised, page 108:
    • 1929, Henry Vincent Yorke as "Henry Green", Living, Ch. xviii, p. 213: "You go and leave them in the Gentlemen." "Leave 'em in the lavatory?"

Forms

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Gentlemen alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

ladies · sirs · sirrahs

Deriveds

mentlegen

Synonyms

outhouse (lavatory)