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GENTLEMAN

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Traducere în limba română

gentleman, pl. gentlemen s.

1. gentleman, om ales, om de condiţie, om onorabil.

2. (înv.) nobil, curtean, om de curte, gentilom;

gentleman in waiting curtean de serviciu (pe lângă rege);

gentleman at arms om din garda personală a regelui;

gentleman at large a) (înv.) curtean fără funcţiuni speciale; b) (glumeţ) persoană care nu are treabă.

3. domn;

ladies and gentlemen doamnelor şi domnilor;

(teatru) first gentleman june prim;

independent gentleman rentier;

gentleman of the gown jurisconsult.

4. (la cărţi) rigă de atu.

5. aparat pentru lipirea vaselor de cositor.

6. (la dans) cavaler;

(despre femei) to dance / to take gentleman a conduce la dans, a face pe cavalerul.

7. (jur.) rentier, om care trăieşte din rentele sale.

◊ (amer. sl.) gentleman of the road comisvoiajor;

gentleman of fortune a) pirat; b) aventurier;

gentlemen of the cloth cler, preoţime, clerici;

(glumeţ) the old gentleman Scaraoţchi, Michiduţă, dracul.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Mrs Fox asked: “Has the gentleman red stockings on, and has he a pointed mouth?”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

“Blabbed, I mean. It's my belief neither of you gentlemen know what you are about, but I'll tell you my way of it—life or death, and a close run.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was near one before the gentlemen and ladies sought their chambers.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“Come! Let us be the best friends in the world!” said the gentleman, laughing.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Here's a letter from the old gentleman!

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

"Pray," said Captain Wentworth, immediately, "can you tell us the name of the gentleman who is just gone away?"

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

‘Well,’ said I, ‘the gentleman at No. 4.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Who are these gentlemen whom you have brought with you?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have nothing to hide from you, gentlemen,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Life meant more to him than it meant to these two girls whose thoughts did not go beyond ice-cream and a gentleman friend.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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