noun

1. A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; an armiferous man ranking below a knight.

   “Being a gentleman, Robert was entitled to shove other commoners into the gongpit but he still had to jump out of the way of the knights to avoid the same fate himself.”

2. Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.

3. An effeminate or oversophisticated man.

   “Well, la-di-da, aren't you just a proper gentleman?”

Synonyms: cockney, puss-gentleman, sissy, dilettante, sahib