noun. People of gentle birth, good breeding, or high social position.

noun. undefined

noun. An upper or ruling class.

noun. The class of English landowners ranking just below the nobility.

noun. People of a particular class or group.

noun. Noble birth or lineage; gentility.

noun. Family; gens.

noun. Gentle breeding or manners; courtesy; civility.

noun. A gentle or noble quality or action; a gentlemanly characteristic.

noun. The class of well-born and well-bred people; people of good position; in England, the class of people of means or leisure below the rank of the nobility, sometimes called the upper middle class.

noun. Persons of a particular class: usually applied in ironical civility to persons of an inferior sort.

noun. Birth; condition; rank by birth.

noun. People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.

noun. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

noun. Birth; condition; rank by birth.

noun. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

noun. People of education and good breeding.

noun. In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

noun. the most powerful members of a society

"(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."

gentrification  

upper class  upper crust  

landed gentry  squirearchy  

complementary  elementary  entry  sentry  supplementary  

aristocrat  artisan  banker  baron  bourgeoisie  

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