Gentry Synonyms

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Synonyms for Gentry

high-society
Fashionable, wealthy, socially prominent people and their way of life
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nobility
The class of people of noble rank or having hereditary titles: usually limited in Great Britain to the peerage
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upper class
The social class above the middle class; rich, socially prominent, or aristocratic class
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elite
A group or class of persons considered to be superior to others because of their intelligence, social standing, or wealth:
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landowner
One that owns land.
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society
A group of people broadly distinguished from other groups by mutual interests, participation in characteristic relationships, shared institutions, and a common culture:
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blue blood
Descent from nobility
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crème de la crème
People of the highest social level
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flower
Peony: happy marriage, happy life, healing
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gentility
Persons of high social standing considered as a group.
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patriciate
Nobility or aristocracy.
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quality
(Emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
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who's who
Alternative form of who's who.
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upper crust
(Informal) upper class
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gentlefolks
(Nonstandard) gentlefolk
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samurai
Later, used in English to designate a Japanese army officer or member of the military caste
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aristocracy
A group or class considered superior to others.
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landed-gentry
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nobleman
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squirearchy
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tenantry
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land-owning
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over
(Mil.) A shot that hits or explodes beyond the target
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Gentry Sentence Examples

  • Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked.

  • In strictness nobility and gentry are the same thing.

  • The Polish nobles, gentry and Church - the educated classes generally - were crushed.

  • In England indeed a variety of causes hindered nobility or gentry from ever obtaining the importance which they obtained, for instance, in France.

  • That coat-armour has been lavishly granted and often assumed without right, that the word "gentleman" has acquired various secondary senses, proves nothing; that is the natural result of a state of things in which the status of gentry carries with it no legal advantage, and yet is eagerly sought after on social grounds.

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