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English
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Noun
gentlemen
- plural of gentleman
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Noun
gentlemen
- Alternative form of gentlemen's: a men's room, a lavatory intended for use by men.
- 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?"
1941, Joyce Cary, chapter XLIV, in Herself Surprised, page 108:There are quays there and lamps and some squares of grass; a ladies and gentlemen, and a cinema.
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- "gentleman, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1898), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
French
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Noun
gentlemen m
- plural of gentleman
Spanish
Noun
gentlemen m pl
- plural of gentleman