English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "gentleman" verwys na 'n beleefde, hoflike en eerbare man, tipies een van goeie sosiale aansien of opvoeding. Dit kan ook verwys na 'n man wat ridderlik, verfynd of goedgemanierd is. In sommige kontekste kan die term "gentleman" ook 'n man impliseer wat van adellike geboorte is of wat 'n sekere mate van rykdom of sosiale status besit.

Sentence Examples

  1. Passepartout, desirous of respecting the gentleman whom he served, ventured a mild remonstrance on such conduct which, being ill-received, he took his leave.
  2. Sitting here listening to this fine gentleman drone on about the establishment of Eureka Springs is failing to lodge anything within my brain.
  3. Fogg aside, and begged him to reflect before he went any further to which that gentleman replied that he was not in the habit of acting rashly, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds was at stake, that the elephant was absolutely necessary to him, and that he would secure him if he had to pay twenty times his value.
  4. Lord Albemarle, an elderly paralytic gentleman, was now the only advocate of Phileas Fogg left.
  5. The polished gentleman disappeared to give place to the bank robber.
  6. The second customer, an older gentleman with a big pot belly kept checking his watch.
  7. till midnight, the hour at which the methodical gentleman retired.
  8. In the way this strange gentleman was going on, he would leave the world without having done any good to himself or anybody else.
  9. He certainly was not a manufacturer nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer.
  10. On the day of the robbery a well-dressed gentleman of polished manners, and with a well-to-do air, had been observed going to and fro in the paying room where the crime was committed.