gentry

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

• enPR: jĕnʹtrē, IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntɹi
• Hyphenation (US): gen‧try

gentry (countable and uncountable, plural gentries)

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

• the quality, the Quality

• gentrification