Complete Definition of "gentry"

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Adjective

gentry

#Birth; condition; rank by birth.
#Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

Noun
gentry

  1. People of education and good breeding.
  2. context|British In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

Related terms
gentrification

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