What does "gentry" mean?
Gentry: People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry. Macaulay.
Additional senses
- 2.Courtesy; civility; complaisance. [Obs.] To show us so much gentry and good will. Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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