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 Translation for 'gentleman' from English to Finnish
NOUN   a gentleman | gentlemen
SYNO gentleman | gentleman's gentleman | man | ...
herra {noun}gentleman
herrasmies {noun}gentleman
gentlemanni {noun}gentleman
herrasmiessopimus {noun}gentleman's agreement
gentlemannisopimus {noun}gentleman's agreement
elok.F
Hiljainen sopimus
Gentleman's Agreement [Elia Kazan]
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Usage Examples English
  • Sampson was born at Sandon, and entered Brasenose College, Oxford as a gentleman-commoner in 1553.
  • In one strip, it has been shown that both men have a girlfriend. The blond gentleman's girlfriend has dark hair and the dark-haired gentleman's girlfriend is blonde.
  • "Kanske en gentleman" (Perhaps a Gentleman) is a Swedish drama film from 1935 directed by Ragnar Arvedson and Tancred Ibsen.
  • The Gentleman's Magazine described him as "a singular specimen of an old English gentleman ...
  • He became a gentleman of the privy chamber in Prince Charles's, later Charles I's, household in 1623 and a lieutenant in the band of gentleman pensioners from 1639 to at least 1642.

  • First Lady or First Gentleman of Kansas is the title attributed to the spouses of the governors of the U.S.
  • A.S Dulat, former director of RAW called him “"A gentleman’s gentleman"”.
  • Mrs. Bouccicault asks Kitty to steal a gentleman away from her granddaughter so Kitty flirts with each arriving male guest in turn assuming that each is the gentleman in question.
  • The building had three floors and a basement. The top floor was reserved for elites/nobles of Mexico City. One scholar notes, “once a gentleman, always a gentleman, even in prison”.
  • "The English Gentleman" (1978) is a humorous book written by Douglas Sutherland and illustrated by Timothy Jacques, with an introduction by Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk.

  • Created by Maurice Leblanc, Arsène Lupin first appeared in a series of short stories serialized in 1905 and published in book form as "Arsène Lupin, gentleman-cambrioleur" in 1907 (translated into English as "The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar").
  • Suggestions that the word is an acronym for "wily Oriental gentleman", " western orientated gentleman" "working on government service", or similar, are examples of false etymology or backronyms.
  • Yuezheng Zichun, a disiciple of Confucius's disciple Zengzi, praised Zuo Qiu Ming as a gentleman, thus Sima Qian honored him as the gentleman of [...].
  • A valet or "gentleman's gentleman" is a gentleman's male servant; the closest female equivalent is a lady's maid.
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