very good manners and behaviour; the fact of belonging to a high social class 文雅;彬彬有礼;高贵的身份 the fact of being quiet and old-fashioned 幽静古朴 the faded gentility of the town 已失去古朴风貌的城镇
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘honourable birth’): from Old French gentilite, from gentil ‘high-born, noble’, from Latin gentilis ‘of the same clan’, from gens, gent- ‘family, race’, from the root of gignere ‘beget’.