gentility

n. 出身高贵, 绅士们, 上流阶层, 斯文, 有教养, 彬彬有礼, 文雅, 装体面, 假斯文

发音

/ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ə.ti/
/ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/
US /ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ə.ɾi/

词形变化

gentilities 复数 gentilities

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.

    不可数 可数

    1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He is the violence and fear of the boy of my stories, yet the gentility and sensitivity of poetry.

  2. 2.

    The upper classes, the gentry.

    可数 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

breeding genteelness

上位词 1

elegance

词源

From Old French gentilité.

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