gentlewoman
noun
gen·tle·wom·an
ˈjen-tᵊl-ˌwu̇-mən 
Examples of gentlewoman in a Sentence
in the 19th century a number of American gentlewomen used their wealth and influence to further abolitionism, women's rights, and other worthy causes
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Maybe Kate can get Parton to hop back across the pond to play a few songs and, as a real Southern gentlewoman, teach those rather provincial Brits how to properly serve tea.
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2023
In the north, Solomon knew, young oblates, the cherished daughters of gentlewomen, were given to the Lord out of the ranks of the nobility.
—Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
One of his stories is about a Southern gentlewoman who keeps her dead fiance’s corpse in her bed.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
Belfast, Dune, Licorice Pizza, The Power of the Dog, and West Side Story all got nominated by the Directors Guild, and unless something truly wild happens (perhaps Kenneth Branagh will actually turn out to be an Elizabethan gentlewoman in disguise), each of them should be a lock.
—Vulture, 3 Feb. 2022
Is the gentlewoman nonetheless a role of sorts?
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2022
Two months earlier a gentlewoman had stopped there with her newborn boy.
—The Economist, 4 July 2020
The two actors dated in the eighties and eventually married other people, but, ever the gentlewoman, Mirren has nothing but praise for the Irish actor.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2022
For example, an unmarried gentlewoman, regardless of her age, wasn’t supposed to travel unless escorted by a relation or chaperone.
—Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2023
In the north, Solomon knew, young oblates, the cherished daughters of gentlewomen, were given to the Lord out of the ranks of the nobility.
—Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
One of his stories is about a Southern gentlewoman who keeps her dead fiance’s corpse in her bed.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
Belfast, Dune, Licorice Pizza, The Power of the Dog, and West Side Story all got nominated by the Directors Guild, and unless something truly wild happens (perhaps Kenneth Branagh will actually turn out to be an Elizabethan gentlewoman in disguise), each of them should be a lock.
—Vulture, 3 Feb. 2022
Is the gentlewoman nonetheless a role of sorts?
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2022
Two months earlier a gentlewoman had stopped there with her newborn boy.
—The Economist, 4 July 2020
The two actors dated in the eighties and eventually married other people, but, ever the gentlewoman, Mirren has nothing but praise for the Irish actor.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 22 Nov. 2022
For example, an unmarried gentlewoman, regardless of her age, wasn’t supposed to travel unless escorted by a relation or chaperone.
—Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2022
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“Gentlewoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gentlewoman. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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gentlewoman
noun
gen·tle·wom·an
ˈjent-ᵊl-ˌwu̇m-ən
1
a
: a woman born to a family of high social rank
b
: a woman attending a lady of rank
2
: a woman with very good manners : lady
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