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Gentry

//ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; A city in Benton County, Arkansas.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A village in Gentry County, Missouri.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas.
Noun
  1. 1
    Birth; condition; rank by birth. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the most powerful members of a society wordnet
  3. 3
    Courtesy; civility; complaisance. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    People of education and good breeding. countable, uncountable

    "landed gentry"

  5. 5
    In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry. British, countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.

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