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gentleman meaning in Sanskrit

सज्जन sajjana

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.təl.mən/[ˈd͡ʒɛɾ̃.ɫ̩.mən]

gentleman in Sanskrit: सज्जन (sajjana). In English, gentleman means any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.

Sanskrit words for gentleman

gentleman, virtuous man
सज्जन sajjana

English meaning of gentleman

  1. noun Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.
  2. noun Any man.
  3. noun 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 armigerous man ranking below a knight.
  4. noun An effeminate or oversophisticated man.

Full definition of gentleman

gentleman in a sentence

  • Please escort this gentleman to the gentlemen's room.
  • Being a gentleman, Robert was entitled to shove other commoners into the gongpit but he still had to jump out of the way of the knights to avoid the same fate himself.
  • Well, la-di-da, aren't you just a proper gentleman?

Synonyms of gentleman

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Questions about gentleman in Sanskrit

What is the meaning of gentleman in Sanskrit?
Gentleman in Sanskrit is सज्जन (sajjana).
gentleman इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
Gentleman: सज्जन (sajjana).
What does gentleman mean in English?
Gentleman means any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man.

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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “gentleman”: सज्जन. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: gentleman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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