gentry
14
8.4
- noun
- /ˈdʒɛntri/
:
pequeña nobleza
- Families were broadly ranked in society: royalty, several levels of nobility, gentry, yeomen, and still lower orders.
- landed gentry
- gentry family
- gentry and aristocracy
The peasants begin to seize the land after the Tsar falls, essentially destroying much of the Gentry class.
- The peasants begin to seize the land after the Tsar falls, essentially destroying much of the Gentry class.
- The peasants begin to seize the land after the Czar falls, essentially destroying much of the Gentry class.
Examples
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And not all the country gentry were intellectuals, like Jefferson and his friends.
Fiction book (1992) -
A great many white Lowcountry people, particularly the gentry and those who aspired to be, called him an agitator.
Fiction book (1998) -
Many people, including the gentry, would turn to them for help, despite their not having a medical education.
Academic text (2010) -
For some reason, the Polish gentry all had to have a bit of wilderness on their estates.
Fiction book (1997) -
Between two fields, there was the remnant of a forest where the gentry once did their hunting.
Fiction book (1997) -
Only the daughters of the gentry had the leisure to embroider such elaborate scenes.
Academic text (2002) -
The gentry began to leave the safe confines of London's defenses for their newly-fortified country estates.
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John Wiltbank, a convert from Delaware's Anglican gentry, preached the last sermon on Sunday evening.
Academic text (1994) -
Zenobia had watched people of many sorts: gentry and working people, artisans, gamblers, seamen, adventurers, and tribesmen.
Fiction book (1990) -
The gentry in the region organized a charity ball to support local schools.
Synonyms
2
9.3
People who own land and live on rent from it
Antonyms
Compounds
How Elite
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7.2
15
6.2
14
8.4
516
2.0
18
6.0
157
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word gentry comes from the Latin root gens, which meant 'family' or 'clan', and it is the same root behind gentle and gentleman. So at first it named people of 'good birth', and that's why gentry today means the upper class just below the nobles.