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Noun
Traitors' Alan Cumming, The Challenge's T.J. Lavin and Deal or No Deal Island's Joe Manganiello were the other gents in the hard-fought category.—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025 Kripke, who created Supernatural and worked with this trio of gents as that series' original showrunner, long talked about getting Padalecki on The Boys.—Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025 The fact that this depressed gent is portrayed by Rankin himself speaks volumes.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025 As for some of the best dressed gents of the night?—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gent
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Adjective
Middle English, "of aristocratic birth, graceful, beautiful," borrowed from Anglo-French, going back to Latin genitus, past participle of gignere "to engender" — more at kin entry 1
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