gentry
noun/ˈdʒɛntri/
Frequency rank: #10,724 most common English word
Meaning
People of high social class but below the nobility; the upper middle class of landowners.
Example sentence
The local gentry owned most of the farmland in the county and lived in large manor houses.
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