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

n. An upper or ruling class.

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

n. People of a particular class or group: another commuter from the suburban gentry.

n. Birth; condition; rank by birth.

n. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

n. People of education and good breeding.

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

n. Birth; condition; rank by birth.

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

n. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

n. Noble birth or lineage; gentility.

n. Family; gens.

n. Gentle breeding or manners; courtesy; civility.

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

n. 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.

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

n. 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."

upper crust    upper class   

gentrification   

landed gentry    squirearchy   

birth    condition    courtesy    civility    complaisance    the Quality    the quality   

complementary    elementary    entry    sentry    supplementary   

landowner    nobility    planter    peasantry    nobleman    clergy    bourgeoisie    magnate    artisan    magistrate