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gentry

Syllables: gen·try/ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/

gentry noun: birth; condition; rank by birth.

Noun

gentry (countable and uncountable, plural gentries)

  1. Birth; condition; rank by birth.
  2. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
  3. People of education and good breeding.
    • landed gentry
    • English gentry
  4. (UK) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

Proper noun capitalized: Gentry

Gentry

  1. A surname.
  2. A city in Benton County, Arkansas.
  3. A village in Gentry County, Missouri.
  4. An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas.

gentry meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

gentry in Tamil

ஜென்ட்ரி

gentry in Urdu

شرفا

gentry in Bengali

ভদ্রলোক শ্রেণী, উচ্চবংশীয় লোক, অভিজাত সমাজ

gentry in Telugu

జెంట్రీ, జెంట్రి
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gentry in Malayalam
മാടമ്പിവർഗ്ഗം, ഉപപ്രഭുവർഗ്ഗം, ഉന്നതവർഗ്ഗക്കാർ, ഉന്നതകുലം
gentry in Kannada
ಸಜ್ಜನರು, ದೊಡ್ಡ ಮನುಷ್ಯರು, ಕುಲೀನರು, ಸಭ್ಯರು
gentry in Nepali
ज्येन्ट्री, जेंट्री

Examples of gentry in a sentence

  • The manor was owned by the local gentry.
  • She wrote novels about the rural gentry.

All 24 example sentences with gentry

Synonyms of gentry

Forms of gentry

pluralgentries

Origin of gentry

From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.

Words formed from gentry

Phrases with gentry

Words that rhyme with gentry

Questions about gentry

What does gentry mean?
Gentry means birth; condition; rank by birth.
What is gentry in Tamil?
Gentry in Tamil is ஜென்ட்ரி. See Gentry meaning in Tamil.
How do you use gentry in a sentence?
The manor was owned by the local gentry.
What part of speech is gentry?
Gentry can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gentry?
Gentry is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/.
What is the plural of gentry?
The plural of gentry is gentries.

Words near gentry in the dictionary

  1. gentrifier
  2. gentrifiers
  3. gentrifies
  4. gentrify
  5. gentrifying
  6. gentry
  7. gentry bush
  8. gentry bushes
  9. gentry cofe
  10. Gentry County
  11. gentry cove

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gentry (page history and authors); Gentry (page history and authors); gentry (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gentry (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gentry (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gentry (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gentry (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gentry (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gentry (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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