gentlemen

See also: Gentlemen

English

Alternative forms

• (lavatory): Gentlemen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.təl.mɪn/, /-ən/, /-ɛn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛn.təl.mən/, /-ɛn/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: gentleman

Noun

gentlemen

1. plural of gentleman

Coordinate terms

• ladies
• sirs, sirrahs

Noun

gentlemen

1. 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.

Synonyms

• (lavatory): see Thesaurus:outhouse

Coordinate terms

• ladies

References

• "gentleman, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1898), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

French

Alternative forms

• gentlemans

Noun

gentlemen m

1. plural of gentleman

Spanish

Noun

gentlemen m pl

1. plural of gentleman