Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Used as a form of address for a group of people.
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- noun Plural form of
gentleperson .
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Examples
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This morning, good friends and gentlepeople, it is my singular honor to have as Guest Blogger the lovely, talented, and exceedingly cool Julia Spencer-Fleming.
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This morning, good friends and gentlepeople, it is my singular honor to have as Guest Blogger the lovely, talented, and exceedingly cool Julia Spencer-Fleming.
May 2008 2008
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I'm sorry, too, because I'd like for some of these gentlepeople to know -- it's not enough just to say you made a mistake, and to assume by doing so that you still get to pass "Go" and you still get to collect your 200 dollars -- AND a free "Get Out of Jail" card.
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Kind folks and gentlepeople, the “White Tree” in question at the Jena high school was cut down.
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Well, kind folks and gentlepeople, do you think our military will airstrike Iran on June 6, 2006?
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Rest ye merry, gentlepeople, let nothing you dismay.
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2006
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He was not a bad-looking youth at all, slightly over middle height, and he spoke with that rather agreeable intonation that gentlepeople acquire who live among servants and farm hands.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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Some of them were gentlepeople, as I understand the word, and some were not; but Duncan, who appeared really to think the mere accident of superior birth in itself a guarantee of personal merit, as
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This last she decided to let to some family of gentlepeople, while herself keeping on the farm and the barns.
Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921
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No parties seemed more agreeable to me, more an exponent of the best New York could do in the way of uniting gentlepeople all of a kind, than Mrs. Rutherfurd's.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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