different between gentleman vs masculine

English

Etymology

Morphologically gentle +? man, calque of French gentilhomme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??n.t?l.m?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): [?d????.??.m?n]
• Hyphenation: gentle?man

Noun

gentleman (plural gentlemen)

1. (chiefly historical) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (Britain law) an armiferous man ranking below a knight.
2. Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
3. (derogatory) An effeminate or oversophisticated man.

   Synonyms: cockney, puss-gentleman, sissy; see also Thesaurus:effeminate man

4. (polite term of address) Any man.

   Synonym: sahib

   Coordinate terms: lady, gentlewoman, (historical) gentlelady

5. (usually historical, sometimes derogatory) An amateur or dabbler in any field, particularly those of independent means.

   Synonym: dilettante
6. (cricket) An amateur player, particularly one whose wealth permits him to forego payment.

   Coordinate terms: professional, (historical) player

Usage notes

• Although gentleman is used in reference to a man and gentlemen is used as a polite form of address to a group of men, it is more common to directly address a single gentleman as sir.
• The singular possesive of the sense "any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man" can appear in ad hoc compounds to describe a polite way of doing something; e.g. a "gentleman's sweep" when a dominant basketball team allowed the opponent one win in a series[1].

Derived terms

Related terms

• gentlewoman
• gentlelady

Descendants

• Chinese Pidgin English: gentleman
• ? Danish: gentleman
• ? Esperanto: ?entlemano
• ? French: gentleman
• ? Georgian: ????????? (?en?lmeni)
• ? Mohegan-Pequot: gundermon
• ? Polish: d?entelmen
• ? Portuguese: gentleman
• ? Spanish: gentleman

Translations

Chinese Pidgin English

Alternative forms

• ??? (Chinese characters)

Etymology

From English gentleman.

Noun

gentleman

1. A respectful term for a person of either sex: gentleman, lady

References

• Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 105: “Gentleman: does not always indicate the male sex. e.g. “outside have got two piece gentleman, one belong missee.” (Lunde.)”

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gentleman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??n.tl?.man/

Noun

gentleman m (plural gentlemen or gentlemans)

1. gentleman, especially an anglophone one

Further reading

• “gentleman” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• mélangent

Spanish

Noun

gentleman m (plural gentlemen)

1. British gentleman

English

Alternative forms

• m., m (abbreviation, grammar)

Etymology

From Middle English masculyne, masculyn, from Old French masculin, from Latin mascul?nus, diminutive of masculus (“male, manly”), itself a diminutive of m?s (“male”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?mæskj?l?n/, /?mæskj?l?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæskjul?n/, /?mæskj?l?n/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?mæskj?l?n/

Adjective

masculine (comparative more masculine, superlative most masculine)

1. Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
2. Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.

   Synonym: male

   Antonyms: female, womanly

3. Belonging to males; typically used by males.

4. Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
   • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages

     That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.

   • […] a masculine church.

   Synonyms: manly, virile

   Antonyms: effeminate, emasculated, epicene, unmanly

5. (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
   1. (of a noun) Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.

   2. (of some other parts of speech) Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.

   Coordinate terms: feminine, neuter

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

masculine (plural masculines)

1. (grammar) The masculine gender.
2. (grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
3. That which is masculine.
4. (rare, possibly obsolete) A man.

Translations

Anagrams

• calumnies, manicules, semuncial

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas.ky.lin/

Adjective

masculine

1. feminine singular of masculin

Latin

Adjective

mascul?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of mascul?nus

References

• masculine in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• masculine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas.ku?li.ne]

Adjective

masculine

1. feminine plural nominative of masculin
2. feminine plural accusative of masculin
3. neuter plural nominative of masculin
4. neuter plural accusative of masculin