gentry

IPA: dʒˈɛntri

Birth; condition; rank by birth.
Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
People of education and good breeding.
(Britain) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
A surname.
A place in the United States:
A city in Benton County, Arkansas.
A village in Gentry County, Missouri.
An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas.

Examples of "gentry" in Sentences

The new California landed gentry is indeed a reality.
Polish writers use the word gentry, which doesn't sound quite right in English.
Congress, the relatives of his wife, the titled gentry of Europe were treated with marked and lavish attention.
The hard favour'd authority that the workers have presumably seen in the faces of the landed gentry is absent here.
And there were occasional cracks in gentry solidarity — especially when opportunity for preferment presented itself.
These well-to-do, often politically connected professionals—including the increasingly intertwined wealthy of Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley—espoused what might be called gentry liberalism, a creed according to which the middle classes had to be punished for their racism, sexism, and excess consumption.
(pray bear that in mind, gentle reader), gentry by birth, and incontestably so by my father's bearing the commission of good old George the Third, we were not _fine gentry_, but people who could put up with as much as any genteel Scotch family who find it convenient to live on a third floor in London, or on a sixth at Edinburgh or Glasgow.
(pray bear that in mind, gentle reader), gentry by birth, and incontestably so by my father's bearing the commission of good old George the Third, we were _not fine gentry_, but people who could put up with as much as any genteel Scotch family who find it convenient to live on a third floor in London, or on a sixth at Edinburgh or Glasgow.