gens du monde

[ zhahn dy mawnd ]

plural noun

, French.

1. people of the world; leaders in society; fashionable people.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gens du monde¹

First recorded in 1800–10; from French: literally, “people of the world”

Example Sentences

Since I am not a girl, cher maître, and you were once not a priest, and we are both gens du monde—hein?

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"Not for girls or for priests—but for des gens du monde," he said to her one day, on putting down a volume of Voltaire.

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We are not les gens du monde, who are ruined by the loss of public opinion.

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These literary gens du monde have the tact to observe, but not the patience, perhaps not the time, to investigate.

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