gentlemen

• (lavatory): Gentlemen

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛn.təl.mɪn/, /ˈdʒɛn.təl.mən/, /ˈdʒɛn.təlˌmɛn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛɾ̃.əl.mən/, /ˈdʒɛɾ̃.əlˌmɛn/

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gentlemen

1. plural of gentleman

• ladies
• sirs, sirrahs

gentlemen

1. Alternative form of gentlemen's: a men's room, a lavatory intended for use by men.
   • 1929, Henry Vincent Yorke as "Henry Green", Living, Ch. xviii, p. 213:

     "You go and leave them in the Gentlemen."
     "Leave 'em in the lavatory?"

   • 1941, Joyce Cary, Herself Surprised, Ch. xliv, p. 108:

     There are quays there and lamps and some squares of grass; a ladies and gentlemen, and a cinema.

• (lavatory): see Thesaurus:bathroom

• ladies

• "gentleman, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1898), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• gentlemans

gentlemen m

1. plural of gentleman