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gentry
[ jen-tree ]
noun
- wellborn and well-bred people.
- (in England) the class below the nobility.
- an upper or ruling class; aristocracy.
- those who are not members of the nobility but are entitled to a coat of arms, especially those owning large tracts of land.
- (used with a plural verb) people, especially considered as a specific group, class, or kind:
The polo crowd doesn't go there, but these hockey gentry do.
- the state or condition of being a gentleman.
gentry
/ ˈ»åÏôÉ›²Ô³Ù°ùɪ /
noun
- persons of high birth or social standing; aristocracy
- persons just below the nobility in social rank
- informal.people, esp of a particular group or kind
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of gentry1
Example Sentences
One was based on class power of early merchant capitalists and the other based on the caste power of the Southern white gentry.
Newsom, for all his highfalutin rhetoric about championing all Californians, just can’t quit the gentry and the insiders who have made his career.
Firstly, Holyrood is a democratically elected house rather than an assembly of aristocrats and the landed gentry.
“He’s making the point that the British landed gentry aristocracy really are the original gangsters of the British class society,†says Daniel Ings, who plays the duke’s older brother.
Dr. Guy says that dropping the "ap" was a change which happened over time, and that the gentry led, with the rest of the population then following.
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