gentleman vs lady

gentleman

Definitions

noun

  1. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
  2. a man of refinement

Examples

Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.

The one are fellows called devilish good -- the other, fellows called devilish gentleman like.

He was a true gentleman and always had time for fans.

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lady

Definitions

noun

  1. a woman of refinement
  2. a polite name for any woman

Examples

The lady was kissing a little lap dog.

Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really.

I guess she would rather I expressed myself in a more ladylike manner, or at least a little more eloquently.

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