In modern use this is a polite form of ‘man’; in former times it referred or was used vocatively to a man of noble birth. In Shakespeare’s plays it occurs in the singular form, as when Juliet says to Romeo: ‘Trust me, gentleman,...

This word is rarely used in modern English, ‘lady’ serving as the usual feminine form of ‘gentleman’. In former times the word was used of a woman of good birth and breeding, especially when she was an attendant on a lady of...

A true gentleman would rather have his clothes torn than mended. (Spanish) It takes three generations to make a gentleman....

The term gentleman (from Latin gentilis, belonging to a race or "gens", and "man", cognate with the French word gentilhomme and the Italian gentil uomo or gentiluomo), in its original and strict signification, denoted a man of good family, analogous to...

PAYING tribute to his old friend Peter Townsend in the Daily Mail, Philip Ziegler said he was sorry that the word gentleman was out of fashion. He didn't mean that the qualities traditionally attributed to gentlemen - honour, modesty, courage, discretion and so forth...

ON ONE OF the Sunday morning interview shows, presidential adviser George Stephanopoulos referred several times to the person charged with firing a semiautomatic rifle at the White House as the "gentleman." That would seem an odd use of the word, but oddly enough, it...

Leadership: George W. Bush has suffered more barbs than any president since Richard Nixon. His critics could never display the decency he has shown for more than seven years on the national political stage.He's been called everything from Hitler to an ape. In between there...

The low-level employee herding people into a crowded elevator atop Arrowhead Stadium seemed in a foul mood."It's full," he growled. "Everybody else will either have to wait or take the stairs."But amid the noise and confusion, somebody kept pressing against his back.Finally, with an annoyed...

Opinionated essay on what a gentleman is like in today's society.