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# gent

«gent» in Mova's school dictionary: **A gentleman; a polite or well-dressed man: a real gent** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a gent, gents); the Gents (UK — men's toilet)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, old-fashioned) A gentleman; a polite or well-dressed man: a real gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#m1)

2) «the Gents» (UK, Ireland, informal) = a public toilet for men. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#m2)

3) «gents'» = for men: gents' hairdresser. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#m3)

4) The gents can also mean the men as a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday British life signs say «Gents» and «Ladies» on toilets; in casual talk someone kind and polite is «a proper gent». Phrases: «the Gents», «a real gent», «ladies and gents».

### examples

- Excuse me, where is the Gents? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#x1)
- Grandpa is a real gent; he always opens the door for people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#x2)
- Ladies and gents, the show is about to begin! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#x3)
- He went to the gents' barber for a haircut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#x4)
- What a gent — he carried my bags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#x5)
- The Gents is on the left, the Ladies on the right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/#x6)

### note

Short for «gentleman». Informal. «The Gents» takes a singular verb: «The Gents is closed.» Female match: «the Ladies».

### In the corpora

- ["The gents" is the everyday British name for the men's toilet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.