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• 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.

• GENTRY (noun)

Sense 1

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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))

"Two wrongs don't make a right."
(English proverb)
"Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves."
(Native American proverb, Assiniboine)
"Maybe he wanted to throw himself in the well, would you follow?"
(Armenian proverb)
"Learned young is done old."
(Dutch proverb)

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