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Definitions of gentries in various dictionaries:
noun - the most powerful members of a society
noun - people of high social class
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Jun 6 2017 Eugene Sheffer - King Feature Syndicate |
Dec 16 2011 Wall Street Journal |
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Plural form of gentry. |
bDefinitionb of bGENTRYb. 1. a obsolete : the qualities appropriate to a person of gentle birth especially : courtesy. b : the condition or rank of a gentleman. a : upper or ruling class : aristocracy. |
People of good social position, specifically the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth. |
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The gentry (genterie; Old French gentil: "high-born") are the "well-born, genteel, and well-bred people" of the social class below the nobility of a society. In contrast to the nobility, the gentry never obtained the right to bear a coat of arms, but, as families of long descent, they inherited a socio-economic position that connected them to the landed estates (manorialism) and to the upper levels of the clergy. The historical term, the gentry, is a construct that historians tentatively apply to the social-class systems of different societies.In the United Kingdom, the term gentry refers to the landed gentry, the majority of the land-owning social class who were typically armigerous (having a coat of arms), but did not have titles of nobility. Linguistically, the word gentry arose to identify the social stratum created by the very small number, by the standards of Continental Europe, of the Peerage of England, and of the parts of Britain, where nobility and titles are inherited by a |