gentility

名词 n.
中文释义
美 [ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ə.ɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior. uncountable
    — 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. The upper classes, the gentry. countable,uncountable

词形变化

gentilities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
ungentility

词源

From Old French gentilité.
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