GENTRY
Dictionary entry overview: What does gentry mean? • GENTRY (noun)
The noun GENTRY has 1 sense:
1. the most powerful members of a society
Familiarity information: GENTRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENTRY (noun)
Meaning:
The most powerful members of a society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
gentry; aristocracy
Hypernyms ("gentry" is a kind of...):
upper class; upper crust (the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gentry"):
landed gentry; squirearchy (the gentry who own land (considered as a class))
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