Definitions for gentries

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gentries gen·try

Spelling: [jen-tree]

IPA: /ˈdʒɛn tri/

Gentries is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 343 anagrams from letters in gentries (eeginrst).

Definitions for gentries

noun

1. wellborn and well-bred people.
2. (in England) the class below the nobility.
3. an upper or ruling class; aristocracy.
4. those who are not members of the nobility but are entitled to a coat of arms, especially those owning large tracts of land.
5. (used with a plural verb) people, especially considered as a specific group, class, or kind:
6. the state or condition of being a gentleman.

Origin of gentries

First recorded in 1275-1325; Middle English word from Old French word genterie. See gentile, gentle

Examples for gentries

gentry domination requires allies with a broader social base and their own political power.

If Wall Street wants to join the “progressive” gentry parade again, as it did in 2008, Republican should encourage them.

But that only makes him angry, and he says dreadful things about the gentry.

But the new rich, particularly the young, tend to be more progressive, or at least gentry liberal.

The people are coming in hundreds—aye, in thousands—the gentry will follow; they must.

I suppose you have no objection this time to bestow a few bullets on these gentry?

The Beltway gentry gets a great deal on government-provided health care—but they think your plan needs cutting.

You will have wealth, station—a name among the first in the gentry of England.

It's the gentry an' most respectable folks that's Protestants.

The guests comprised the gentry of the neighbourhood, and also many from a distance.