gentlefolk

or gen·tle·folks

[ jen-tl-fohk ]

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noun(used with a plural verb)

persons of good family and breeding.

Origin of gentlefolk

First recorded in 1585–95; gentle + folk

Words Nearby gentlefolk

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How to use gentlefolk in a sentence

Lords not only ought to be gentlefolk, and be fed and waited upon and live in affluent idleness, but super-gentlefolk.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 16, 1917. | Various
My only fear was that the gallery might mistake his rather second-rate people for gentlefolk.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 16, 1917. | Various
gentlefolk have "friends" stopping with them, never "company."
The Complete Bachelor | Walter Germain
Those few hundreds of French gentlefolk fell into a pit that most of them had been well content should exist for others.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George Wells
After all, bedders are to blame for the present lamentable state of things, just as much as gentlefolk.
The Longest Journey | E. M. Forster

British Dictionary definitions for gentlefolk

gentlefolk

gentlefolks

/ (ˈdʒɛntəlˌfəʊk) /

pl n

persons regarded as being of good breeding

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