(UK, informal) A businessman working in the City of London financial district.

plural of city gent

Non-Jewish. / Heathen, pagan. / Relating to a clan, tribe, or nation; clannish, tribal, national. / Of or pertaining to a gens or several gentes.

A non-Jewish person. / (grammar) A noun derived from a proper noun which denotes something belonging to or coming from a particular city, nation, or country.

(chiefly historical) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK law) an armiferous man ranking below a knight.

Birth; condition; rank by birth. / Courtesy; civility; complaisance. / People of education and good breeding. / (Britain) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition. / Soft and mild rather than hard or severe. / Docile and easily managed. / Gradual rather than steep or sudden.

(intransitive) To become gentle. / (transitive, obsolete) To ennoble. / (transitive, animal husbandry) To break; to tame; to domesticate. / (transitive) To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.

(archaic) A person of high birth. / (fishing) A maggot used as bait by anglers. / A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.

Without strong force or quickness: softly, lightly. / Quietly: without much noise or motion. / (historical) From a gentle or high-class family.