gentry

noun/ˈdʒɛntri/

Frequency rank: #10,724 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

People of high social class but below the nobility; the upper middle class of landowners.

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Example sentence

The local gentry owned most of the farmland in the county and lived in large manor houses.

Synonyms & related words

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