gentry
gentry definition
gen·try (jen′trē)
noun
- Obsolete rank resulting from birth; esp., high rank
- people of high social standing; esp., in Great Britain, the class of landowning people ranking just below the nobility
- people of a particular class or group the newspaper gentry
Etymology: ME genterie, noble or high birth; prob. taken as sing. of genterise, gentility of birth < OFr, var. of gentilise < gentil: see gentle
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