gentry

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Sinonieme

nobility

aristocracy

nobles

gentlefolk

folks

nobelesse

people

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upper class

high society

patriciate

gentility

Vertalings

Leute

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gentry

señorío

aristocratie

noblesse

petite noblesse

nobiltà

aristocrazia

aristocracia

alta sociedade

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/

Etimologie (Engels)

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