"gentlewoman" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.təlˌwʊm.ən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-gentlewoman.wav Forms: gentlewomen [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English gentilwoman, modelled after gentilman (“gentleman”), equivalent to gentle + -woman. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|gentilwoman}} Middle English gentilwoman, {{af|en|gentle|-woman}} gentle + -woman Head templates: {{en-noun|gentlewomen}} gentlewoman (plural gentlewomen)
  1. (historical) A woman of the nobility. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Nobility Translations (woman of the nobility): dama [feminine] (Galician), dona [feminine] (Galician), მანდილოსანი (mandilosani) (Georgian), ქალბატონი (kalbaṭoni) (Georgian), κυρία (kyría) [feminine] (Greek), αρχοντογυναίκα (archontogynaíka) [feminine] (Greek), bean uasal [feminine] (Irish), дво́рјанка (dvórjanka) [feminine] (Macedonian), благоро́дничка (blagoródnička) [feminine] (Macedonian), да́ма (dáma) [feminine] (Macedonian), wahine mārire (Maori), mareikura (Maori), hidalga [feminine] (Spanish), hijadalgo [feminine] (Spanish), fidalga [feminine] (Spanish), fijadalgo [feminine] (Spanish), สุภาพสตรี (sù-pâap-sà-dtrii) (Thai), กุลสตรี (gun-lá-sà-dtrii) (Thai)
    Sense id: en-gentlewoman-en-noun-koW~fE85 Disambiguation of Nobility: 69 31 Disambiguation of 'woman of the nobility': 96 4
  2. (US, politics) A female member of a legislature, especially a female member of a House of Representatives. Tags: US Categories (topical): Politics, Female people
    Sense id: en-gentlewoman-en-noun-fDMGVYtc Disambiguation of Female people: 26 74 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English karmadharaya compounds, English terms suffixed with -woman, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Thai translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 98 Disambiguation of English karmadharaya compounds: 5 95 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -woman: 24 76 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 6 94 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 95 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 98 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 5 95 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 2 98 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 12 88 Topics: government, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: gentleman, gentlelady

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.