gentry
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
Definition of gentry
8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)Birth; condition; rank by birth.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)Birth; condition; rank by birth.
- (countable, uncountable)Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
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(countable, uncountable)People of education and good breeding.
“landed gentry”
“English gentry”
“wealthy gentry”
“The manor was owned by the local gentry.”
“She wrote novels about the rural gentry.”
- (British, countable, uncountable)In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
name
- A surname.
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.
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