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The meaning of the word "Gentry" in English


Gentry a. : Birth; condition; rank by birth.

Gentry a. : People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.

Gentry a. : Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

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Taxonomy
gentry, nobility, Finland, nobles, landed gentry, power, British, Swedish realm, landowners, commoners, burghers, Burke's Landed Gentry, estates, clergy, Sweden, functionaries, colonisation, free encyclopedia.

Defination from the web:
gentry were the smaller landowners who usually had no titles higher than knight or baron. Baronets are an exception, although possessed of hereditary titles, they were not of the peerage, and thus were of the gentry (lesser nobility) ... 

synonyms
  (noun) aristocracy
  (noun) upper class
  (noun) upper crust


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