gentry

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Etymology

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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

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  • enPR: jĕnʹtrē, IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛntɹi
  • Hyphenation (US): gen‧try

Noun

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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.

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