"city gent" meaning in English

See city gent in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: city gents [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} city gent (plural city gents)
  1. (UK, informal) A businessman working in the City of London financial district. Tags: UK, informal
    Sense id: en-city_gent-en-noun-fYUJMjzx Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for city gent meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "city gents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "city gent (plural city gents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940 October, “Notes and News: The High Barnet Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 569",
          "text": "Gone, never to return, is the famous minute bell at High Barnet, the sound of which has caused generations of ' City gents ' to precipitate themselves with most undignified acceleration down the steep station slope in an endeavour to scramble aboard the 8.34 a.m. Moorgate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A businessman working in the City of London financial district."
      ],
      "id": "en-city_gent-en-noun-fYUJMjzx",
      "links": [
        [
          "businessman",
          "businessman"
        ],
        [
          "City of London",
          "City of London"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) A businessman working in the City of London financial district."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "city gent"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "city gents",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "city gent (plural city gents)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940 October, “Notes and News: The High Barnet Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 569",
          "text": "Gone, never to return, is the famous minute bell at High Barnet, the sound of which has caused generations of ' City gents ' to precipitate themselves with most undignified acceleration down the steep station slope in an endeavour to scramble aboard the 8.34 a.m. Moorgate.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A businessman working in the City of London financial district."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "businessman",
          "businessman"
        ],
        [
          "City of London",
          "City of London"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, informal) A businessman working in the City of London financial district."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "city gent"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.