Definitions

gentlefolk

[jen-tl-fohk] / ˈdʒɛn tlˌfoʊk /

NOUN

gentility

Synonyms

STRONGEST

aristocracy civility decorum elegance politeness propriety respectability

STRONG

courtesy courtliness culture elite etiquette flower formality gentry nobility polish quality rank refinement society urbanity

WEAK

blue blood gentle birth good breeding good family good manners high birth mannerliness optimacy ruling class upper class upper crust

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bad manners impoliteness rudeness

WEAK

coarseness crudeness roughness rusticity

NOUN

jet set

Synonyms

STRONGEST

high society upper class upper crust

WEAK

beau monde beautiful people café society country-club set cream of society crème de la crème elite fashionable society glitterati haut monde high life in-crowd leisured class moneyed class polite society privileged class salon smart set the privileged the well-to-do wealthy people

Example Sentences

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Gentlefolk in tiaras and white ties took shortcuts through fruit lorries as fragrant as they were when Nell Gwyn peddled oranges there.

From Time Magazine Archive

If A House of Gentlefolk and Fathers and Children stir no deeper ideas than that in the mind of Professor Brückner, whose fault is it?

From Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

Gentlefolk have "friends" stopping with them, never "company."

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Germain, Walter

His Sportsman’s Sketches made him known, and his Nest of Gentlefolk made him not only famous but universally popular.

From An Outline of Russian Literature by Baring, Maurice

The next novel, A House of Gentlefolk,* is, with the possible exception of Fathers and Children, Turgenev's masterpiece.

From Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon

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