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gentry::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | aristocracy |
| Type of | upper class, upper crust |
| Has types | landed gentry, squirearchy |
Examples of gentry
gentry
The gentry class won concessions from the government and resisted tax increases.
From the en.wikipedia.org
While the exams were meritocratic, most examinees were of the gentry background.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The history of our landed gentry has changed very little in the last 400 years.
From the guardian.co.uk
Gentry is running against Barry Barlow and William Mason for the District 1 seat.
From the tennessean.com
Gentry said he drove Chelsea and Burnett to the field, and Burnett strangled her.
From the kansas.com
Gentry said Robinson was certain he would face charges once the child was born.
From the kansas.com
Gentry wore leg shackles and a dark green Juvenile Detention Facility jumpsuit.
From the kansas.com
Gentry took a shovel from his sister's yard and put it in the trunk of his car.
From the kansas.com
You felt a bit like a commoner cordoned off from the peerage and landed gentry.
From the nytimes.com
- The most powerful members of a society
- Gentry (from Old French genterie, from gentil, "high-born, noble") are "well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past...
- As used for imperial China, gentry does not correspond to any term in Chinese. One standard work remarks that under the Ming dynasty, "called shenshi or shenjin, meaning variously degree-holders, literati, scholar-bureaucrats or officials, they are loosely known in English as the Chinese gentry. ...
- The Gentry is a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the New Zealand Derby in 1988.
- The Gentrys were an American band of the 1960s and early 1970s best known for their 1965 hit "Keep on Dancing" (in 1971 also a #9 hit for the Bay City Rollers). ...
- Birth; condition; rank by birth; Courtesy; civility; complaisance; People of education and good breeding; In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry
- In China, the class of prosperous families, next in wealth below the rural aristocrats, from which the emperors drew their administrative personnel. ...
- Well-to-do landowners, as distinct from great aristocrats. Used in relation both to Sung China and to 17th and 18th century England.
- The lesser nobility, gentlemen, descended from ancient families that have borne Coat Armour.
