noun

• 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.