Meaning of Gentry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Birth; condition; rank by birth.
   countable, uncountable
3. A place in the United States:
4. A city in Benton County, Arkansas.
5. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
   countable, uncountable
6. A village in Gentry County, Missouri.
7. People of education and good breeding.
   countable, uncountable
8. An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas.
9. In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
   British, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“landed gentry”

“English gentry”

“wealthy gentry”

“The manor was owned by the local gentry.”

“She wrote novels about the rural gentry.”

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