Gentlefolk

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • noun-plural. Persons of good family and relatively high station.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. People of superior social position.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Persons of good breeding and family: a collective noun, with plural sense, and now generally with plural termination, gentlefolks.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. people of good family and breeding and high social status
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    folks    folk    common people   
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