gents'
noun
the gents, a men's room.
gents'
American
[jents]
/ dʒɛnts /
noun
(used with a singular verb)
gents
British
/ dʒɛnts /
noun
Etymology
Origin of gents'
Example Sentences
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Her office is below the Speaker's House where she says the "gents' toilets" are "regularly exploding with sewage".
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026
Bill Bryson wrote about it in his 1995 book Notes From A Small Island saying: "There is no place in the world finer for a pee than the ornate gents' room of the Philharmonic."
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2020
I first interviewed Andrew Bacevich, the soldier turned scholar, after he spoke at the Hope Club, an old-line gents’ establishment in Providence, Rhode Island.
From Salon • May 15, 2016
Although, admittedly, where I am standing is just by the gents' toilets in a succession of the hippest venues in western Europe.
From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2013
"There's some paper back there in the gents' room. You ought to wipe out your ears."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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