gentlewoman

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English gentilwoman, modelled after gentilman (“gentleman”), equivalent to gentle + -woman.

Am I not as good a gentlewoman? — The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio
But you're only a gentlewoman, my poor dear child. — Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
But you're only a gentlewoman, my poor dear child. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

dame, madam, ma'am, lady

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