noun
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A person of high birth.
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A maggot used as bait by anglers.
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A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.
verb
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To become gentle
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To ennoble
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(animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate
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To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.
adjective
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Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
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Stuart is a gentle man; he would never hurt you.
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Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
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I felt something touch my shoulder; it was gentle and a little slimy.
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Docile and easily managed.
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We had a gentle swim in the lake.
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Gradual rather than steep or sudden.
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The walks in this area have a gentle incline.
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Polite and respectful rather than rude.
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He gave me a gentle reminder that we had to hurry up.
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Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
Examples of gentle in a Sentence
Her face was calm, gentle, and happy.
She put a gentle hand on Lisa's shoulder.
His voice was gentle as he instructed her.
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
He wasn't gentle then.
She captured his neck in the noose of her arms, directing his head down to her with a gentle touch of her hand on the back of his neck.
Like the gentle dove in the fable she was to pine apart from me....
Where was the sweet, gentle Brandon who never seemed to be upset by anything?
In a gentle flicker of light, he was gone.
Her soulful gaze and gentle words gave him the creeps.
Lankha worked his magic with his micro suede-covered hands and gentle touch.
I received from them gifts that have the gentle concurrence of the heart, books containing their own thoughts, soul-illumined letters, and photographs that I love to have described again and again.
He floated on the updraft of air off the water and then drifted to the beach below, changing into his human form as he landed with a gentle thud on rocky sand.
He had a gentle temperament, though.
She flushed at his gentle chiding.
He was so gentle, so sweet.
Deidre had never seen him like this, as a quietly commanding figure, capable of lethal force one moment and gentle kisses the next.
His arms surrounded her in a warm gentle embrace that had no urgency.
You have to be gentle, Romas.
The bright, gentle, fanciful plays--the ones I like best now--appear not to have impressed me at first, perhaps because they reflected the habitual sunshine and gaiety of a child's life.
He bent his head, his warm lips planting gentle kisses along her neck and shoulder.
He was not rough, though he wasn't gentle, either.
Many years ago there lived in England many good people, but the king and his friends were not kind and gentle and patient with good people, because the king did not like to have the people disobey him.
My teacher says, if children learn to be patient and gentle while they are little, that when they grow to be young ladies and gentlemen they will not forget to be kind and loving and brave.
They both heard the sound at the same time—a gentle rapping at the back door.
His large hand was unexpectedly gentle as it settled on her neck over where the demon bit her.
Perhaps on that spring morning when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden Walden Pond was already in existence, and even then breaking up in a gentle spring rain accompanied with mist and a southerly wind, and covered with myriads of ducks and geese, which had not heard of the fall, when still such pure lakes sufficed them.
But he was kind and gentle only to those of his regiment, to Timokhin and the like--people quite new to him, belonging to a different world and who could not know and understand his past.
It made him angry just because the idea of marrying the gentle Princess Mary, who was attractive to him and had an enormous fortune, had against his will more than once entered his head.
She is always spoken of by his friends as a mild, reasonable and obliging person, whose amiability and gentle sense did much to soothe the too nervous and excitable temperament of her husband.
They were all gentle and sympathetic and I felt the charm of their manner as much as I had felt the brilliancy of their essays and poems.
He pulled her into a gentle comforting hug.
Most of the boys she dated would never have thought of practicing the age-old custom of walking around the car to open her door, or guiding her through the crowd with a gentle hand on one elbow.
She stiffened as he stepped closer and placed a gentle hand on each of her shoulders.
He'd been as gentle with her as he'd known how, and still she suffered under the weight of the visions.
Some of the gems had been carried by gentle waves to the edges of the lake and deposited away from the bulk of the jewels.
Near Vionville they took ground to their left, opening to full intervals as they did so, and then ascended the gentle incline which still hid them from their enemy.
In the phenomenal world then, there are, it has been thought [and Parmenides accepts the theory, which appears to be of Pythagorean origin], two primary elements - namely, fire, which is gentle, thin, homogeneous, and night, which is dark, thick, heavy.
Now I must tell my gentle poet good-bye, for I have a letter to write home before I go to bed.
It is very beautiful to think that you can tell so many people of the heavenly Father's tender love for all His children even when they are not gentle and noble as He wishes them to be.
I tried to imagine my gentle poet when he was a school-boy, and I wondered if it was in Andover he learned the songs of the birds and the secrets of the shy little woodland children.
His handsome face assumed a melodramatically gentle expression and he held out his hand.
His gentle flirting reminded her of how charismatic he could be, when not telling her she was getting ready to die.
He really is a gentle and loving person.
She has the most experience and she's gentle.
In general terms, however, the surface may be described as a vast rolling plain having a gentle southern and eastern slope.
Like most true boas, it is of a very gentle disposition and easily domesticates itself in the palm or reed thatched huts of the natives, where it hunts the rats during the night.
Protestants were weeded out of the army, Protestant officers in particular being superseded by idle Catholics of gentle blood, where they could be found, and in any case by Catholics.
He became indeed "doux entete" (gentle but obstinate) as his mother called him, persistent in his ideas and always ready to return to them, though at the same time yielding and drawing back before the force of circumstances.
While Death is cruel and merciless, and never lets go his prey once seized, Sleep is gentle and kindly, the bestower of rest and pleasant dreams, the soother of care and sorrow.