gentry
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See also: Gentry
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
gentry (countable and uncountable, plural gentries)
- Birth; condition; rank by birth.
- Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
- People of education and good breeding.
- (British) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
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Translations[edit]
courtesy, civility
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people of education and good breeding
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Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms suffixed with -ry
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɛntɹi
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