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Definition of country gentleman in English: country gentlemannoun A rich man of good social standing who owns and lives in a large rural property. Example sentencesExamples - Somehow, though, he found his voice and his nerve, and bowed to her like the country gentleman he once was.
- Tonight I ought to go out as a British country gentleman and find companions wholly unsuitable to my station.
- Rochester is a swarthy, middle-aged, rich country gentleman, with a wife locked up in a secret chamber in his house.
- Can we look in the window of the country gentleman and ladies?
- Elizabeth Bennet is a country gentleman's daughter in 19th Century England.
- A small act of defiance against an allegedly urban-dominated parliament's desire to consign the country gentleman's ‘sport’ of fox-hunting to history.
- He is a country gentleman, and I think that's worked out to be a positive.
- ‘We've become country gentlemen,’ laughs the dancer.
- As a conciliator, his capacity for ascertaining and implementing the views of the typical country gentleman was outstanding.
- Most wealthy young gentlemen were too busy trying to find a young lady of suitable wealth and position to bother with the daughters of country gentlemen.
- He then lived as a country gentleman, hunting and playing cricket while also publishing small volumes of poetry, often privately.
- On the other hand, professional men, merchants, and town governors became bolder in asserting that they were as good as the country gentleman and were entitled to his title of respect.
- Contrary to my expectations, he was every inch the country gentleman, a charming and solicitous host.
- His studies were interrupted by the Civil War so that throughout the 1650s and 1660s he lived as a country gentleman in Wiltshire.
- When these lot turn up in their plus fours, they out-country-gent the country gentlemen.
- Contrary to the quiet country gentleman image most wine producers like to project, those from the most famous wine making districts are usually savvy and experienced business people.
- He was from a Scottish landowning family, and after serving in the Peninsular War he returned to Britain to the life of a country gentleman.
- He had a British rival, Thomas Young, who was a country gentleman, a man of many parts, a Renaissance man; who wasn't this obsessed fanatic: a scholar.
Synonyms landowner, landholder, landlord, lord of the manor
Definition of country gentleman in US English: country gentlemannounˈkəntrē ˈjen(t)lmən A rich man of good social standing who owns and lives in a large rural property. Example sentencesExamples - A small act of defiance against an allegedly urban-dominated parliament's desire to consign the country gentleman's ‘sport’ of fox-hunting to history.
- He is a country gentleman, and I think that's worked out to be a positive.
- His studies were interrupted by the Civil War so that throughout the 1650s and 1660s he lived as a country gentleman in Wiltshire.
- Elizabeth Bennet is a country gentleman's daughter in 19th Century England.
- Somehow, though, he found his voice and his nerve, and bowed to her like the country gentleman he once was.
- When these lot turn up in their plus fours, they out-country-gent the country gentlemen.
- Tonight I ought to go out as a British country gentleman and find companions wholly unsuitable to my station.
- As a conciliator, his capacity for ascertaining and implementing the views of the typical country gentleman was outstanding.
- He was from a Scottish landowning family, and after serving in the Peninsular War he returned to Britain to the life of a country gentleman.
- Contrary to my expectations, he was every inch the country gentleman, a charming and solicitous host.
- ‘We've become country gentlemen,’ laughs the dancer.
- He had a British rival, Thomas Young, who was a country gentleman, a man of many parts, a Renaissance man; who wasn't this obsessed fanatic: a scholar.
- Can we look in the window of the country gentleman and ladies?
- Contrary to the quiet country gentleman image most wine producers like to project, those from the most famous wine making districts are usually savvy and experienced business people.
- On the other hand, professional men, merchants, and town governors became bolder in asserting that they were as good as the country gentleman and were entitled to his title of respect.
- Most wealthy young gentlemen were too busy trying to find a young lady of suitable wealth and position to bother with the daughters of country gentlemen.
- He then lived as a country gentleman, hunting and playing cricket while also publishing small volumes of poetry, often privately.
- Rochester is a swarthy, middle-aged, rich country gentleman, with a wife locked up in a secret chamber in his house.
Synonyms landowner, landholder, landlord, lord of the manor
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