Usually means: Wealthy, landowning class; minor nobility.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!)
We found 31 dictionaries that define the word gentry:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gentry, the gentry: Merriam-Webster
  2. gentry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gentry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gentry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gentry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gentry, gentry: Wordnik
  7. the gentry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gentry, gentry: Wiktionary
  9. gentry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gentry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gentry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gentry, gentry: Dictionary.com
  13. gentry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gentry: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gentry (China), Gentry (disambiguation), Gentry, The Gentry (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gentry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gentry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gentry: Rhymezone
  19. Gentry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gentry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gentry: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gentry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gentry: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gentry: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gentry: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gentry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gentry: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gentries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
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.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    ivory,     cream,     beige,     taupe,     champagne, more...



Word origin

Words similar to gentry

Usage examples for gentry

Idioms related to gentry

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing gentry

Words that often appear near gentry

Rhymes of gentry

Invented words related to gentry

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    ivory,     cream,     beige,     taupe,     champagne, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux