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GENTLEFOLK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gentlefolk mean?
• GENTLEFOLK (noun)
The noun GENTLEFOLK has 1 sense:
1. people of good family and breeding and high social status
Familiarity information: GENTLEFOLK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
People of good family and breeding and high social status
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("gentlefolk" is a kind of...):
common people; folk; folks (people in general (often used in the plural))
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