gentlemans

See also: gentlemäns

English

Noun

gentlemans

1. (nonstandard) plural of gentleman
   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 222:

     A tattered cadie, or errand porter, whom David Deans had jostled in his attempt to extricate himself from the vicinity of the scorners, exclaimed in a strong north-country tone, "Ta de'il ding out her Cameronian een—what gi'es her titles to dunch gentlemans about?"

   • 1830, John Gideon Millingen, Adventures of an Irish Gentleman, volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], page 253:

     “If he be one gentleman, he may tine wid me: and I vill show to de gentlemans of England, vat de Italian gentlemans are.”

   • 1900, Wilson Barrett, Elwyn Alfred Barron, In Old New York: A Romance, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page and Company, page 64:

     You are a gentleman, and gentlemans are much too fine for trate.

2. (obsolete) genitive of gentleman
   • 1604, Acts of Parliament 1 under James I, c.4, §8

     No person shall keepe any schoole... except it be in some publike or free Grammer Schoole, or in some such noblemans... or gentlemans... house as are not recusants.

   • 1624, Phillip [i.e., Philip] Massinger, The Bond-man: An Antient Storie. […], London: […] Edw[ard] Allde, for Iohn Harison and Edward Blackmore, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene iii, signature [B4], recto:

     VVe may commend / A Gentlemans modeſty, manners, and fine language, / […] / Yet, though he obſerue, and vvaſte his ſtate vpon vs, / If he be ſtanch and bid not for the ſtocke / That vve vvere borne to traffick vvith; the truth is / VVe care not for his company.

   • 1660, [Richard Allestree], “Sect[ion] VII. Of the Fourth Advantage, that of His Authority.”, in The Gentlemans Calling, London: […] T[imothy] Garthwait […], →OCLC, page 117:

     IN the fourth place we are to conſider the Gentlemans advantage, in reſpect of his Authority over thoſe that relate to, or depend on him: […]

French

Alternative forms

• gentlemen

Noun

gentlemans m

1. plural of gentleman

Swedish

Noun

gentlemans

1. indefinite genitive singular of gentleman