"gentleman's bet" meaning in English

See gentleman's bet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: gentlemen's bets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|gentlemen's bets|head=gentleman's bet}} gentleman's bet (plural gentlemen's bets)
  1. A bet in which no money is bet; only the honor of the two parties is at stake. There is no need for proof that one party's side of the bet has been fulfilled; he or she is taken at their word.
    Sense id: en-gentleman's_bet-en-noun-FTomDWY~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for gentleman's bet meaning in English (0.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gentlemen's bets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gentlemen's bets",
        "head": "gentleman's bet"
      },
      "expansion": "gentleman's bet (plural gentlemen's bets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bet in which no money is bet; only the honor of the two parties is at stake. There is no need for proof that one party's side of the bet has been fulfilled; he or she is taken at their word."
      ],
      "id": "en-gentleman's_bet-en-noun-FTomDWY~",
      "links": [
        [
          "bet",
          "bet"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "honor",
          "honor"
        ],
        [
          "parties",
          "parties"
        ],
        [
          "at stake",
          "at stake"
        ],
        [
          "proof",
          "proof"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gentleman's bet"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gentlemen's bets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gentlemen's bets",
        "head": "gentleman's bet"
      },
      "expansion": "gentleman's bet (plural gentlemen's bets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bet in which no money is bet; only the honor of the two parties is at stake. There is no need for proof that one party's side of the bet has been fulfilled; he or she is taken at their word."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bet",
          "bet"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "honor",
          "honor"
        ],
        [
          "parties",
          "parties"
        ],
        [
          "at stake",
          "at stake"
        ],
        [
          "proof",
          "proof"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gentleman's bet"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 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.