Associations to the word «Gentry»

Wiktionary

GENTRY, noun. Birth; condition; rank by birth.
GENTRY, noun. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
GENTRY, noun. People of education and good breeding.
GENTRY, noun. (British) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
GENTRY, proper noun. A surname​.

Dictionary definition

GENTRY, noun. The most powerful members of a society.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats