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Meaning of gentry in English

gentry
noun [ plural ]
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/ˈdʒen.tri/ us
/ˈdʒen.tri/
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people of high social class, especially in the past:
George Washington was the son of Virginia gentry.
the gentry By 1815, travel had ceased to be the prerogative of the gentry.
the landed gentry She married a member of the landed gentry (= those who own a lot of land).
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(Definition of gentry from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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gentry
plural noun
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/ˈdʒen·tri/
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people of high social class:
His diaries provide an intimate look at the life of the gentry in 18th-century Virginia.
(Definition of gentry from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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