gentry,

Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word gentry,.

For a moment, everyone stopped talking, even the gentry,

The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991
Edgeworth objected strongly to a practice common among the gentry,

Richard Lovell Edgeworth Ed 1896
He consoled himself with the company of the lesser gentry,

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 07: 1561-62 John Lothrop Motley 1845
Edgeworth objected strongly to a practice common among the gentry,

Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoir Richard Lovell Edgeworth 1780
All round and sound — but soft! what mean those gentry,

Comedies. Translated into English, with notes [by Richard Cumberland and others] 1812
And there’s the Grahames, and the Buchanans, and the Lennox gentry,

Rob Roy 2005
He observed, "that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry,

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
He observed, "that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry,

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706
He observed, "that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry,

Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706