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Another word for gentry

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Noun

  1. People of the highest social level

    See also:

    over

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Another word for gentry

Noun
  1. See also:

    aristocracy

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

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

  • 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.

  • "It seems that even in the next world only the gentry are to have a chance!" remarked one.

  • In strictness nobility and gentry are the same thing.

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