gentry

See also: Gentry

English

Etymology

From Old French genterise. By surface analysis, gentle (“well-born; of a good family or respectable birth”) +‎ -ry (suffix indicating "a class, group, or collection of").

Pronunciation

• enPR: jĕnʹtrē, IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntɹi
• Hyphenation (US): gen‧try

Noun

gentry (countable and uncountable, plural gentries)

1. Birth; condition; rank by birth.
2. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
3. People of education and good breeding.
4. (British) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

Synonyms

• the quality, the Quality

Derived terms

• gentry cove
• gentry mort
• landed gentry

 

Related terms

• gentrification

Translations

rank by birth

• Finnish: syntyperä (fi)

courtesy, civility

• Finnish: sivistyneisyys (fi)
• Georgian: ზრდილობა (zrdiloba), ცივილურობა (civiluroba)

people of education and good breeding

• Finnish: herrasväki (fi)
• Georgian: კეთილშობილნი (ḳetilšobilni)

people between nobility and yeomanry

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仕紳／仕绅 (shìshēn), 士紳／士绅 (zh) (shìshēn), 縉紳／缙绅 (jìnshēn)

• Georgian: აზნაურობა (aznauroba)