name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
gentry
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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jĕnʹtrē
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/ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/
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rhymes with -ɛntɹi
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CMU ARPABET: JH EH1 N T R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A place in the United States:
A city in Benton County, Arkansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 3
A place in the United States:
A village in Gentry County, Missouri.
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name
Meaning 4
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
Birth; condition; rank by birth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
People of education and good breeding.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- landed gentry
- English gentry
- wealthy gentry
- The manor was owned by the local gentry.
- She wrote novels about the rural gentry.
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noun
Meaning 8
In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
the most powerful members of a society
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: aristocracy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: upper class, upper crust
Narrower terms: landed gentry, squirearchy
History
Etymology
From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: syntyperä — rank by birth
- German: Oberschicht — rank by birth
- Hungarian: dzsentri — rank by birth
- Polish: gentry — rank by birth
- Finnish: sivistyneisyys — courtesy, civility
- Georgian: ზრდილობა (zrdiloba) — courtesy, civility
- Georgian: ცივილურობა (civiluroba) — courtesy, civility
- Hungarian: dzsentri — courtesy, civility
- Polish: gentry — courtesy, civility
- Finnish: herrasväki — people of education and good breeding
- Georgian: კეთილშობილნი (ḳetilšobilni) — people of education and good breeding
- German: Bildungsbürgertum — people of education and good breeding
- Hungarian: dzsentri — people of education and good breeding
- Polish: gentry — people of education and good breeding
- Chinese Mandarin: 仕紳 /仕绅 (shìshēn) — people between nobility and yeomanry
- Chinese Mandarin: 士紳 /士绅 (shìshēn) — people between nobility and yeomanry
- Chinese Mandarin: 縉紳 /缙绅 (jìnshēn) — people between nobility and yeomanry
- Czech: panstvo — people between nobility and yeomanry
- Czech: nižší šlechta — people between nobility and yeomanry
- Georgian: აზნაურობა (aznauroba) — people between nobility and yeomanry
- Hungarian: dzsentri — people between nobility and yeomanry
- Italian: borghesia — people between nobility and yeomanry
- Polish: gentry — people between nobility and yeomanry
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