gentry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   People of education and good breeding.

   Landed gentry.

2. 2
   noun

   the most powerful members of a society

3. 3
   noun

   Birth; condition; rank by birth.

4. 4
   noun

   Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.

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