Usually means: Social classes of noble descent.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. gentries: Merriam-Webster
  2. gentries: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gentries: Vocabulary.com
  4. the gentries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. gentries: Wiktionary
  6. gentries: Dictionary.com
  7. gentries: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gentries: Legal dictionary

(Note: See gentry as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Gentry)

noun:  Birth; condition; rank by birth.
noun:  Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
noun:  People of education and good breeding.
noun:  (British) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A city in Benton County, Arkansas.
noun:  A village in Gentry County, Missouri.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas.
▸ Also see gentry


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