From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Sociologygentrygen‧try /ˈdʒentri/ noun [plural] old-fashionedSSCLASS IN SOCIETYpeople who belong to a high socialclass
a member of the landed gentry (=gentry who own land)Examples from the Corpusgentry• The Nottingham bankattracted the business of neighbouringnobility and gentry as well as that of local hosierymanufacturers and traders.• Redmond is HarryTrench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investmentincome.• Other local gentry families were less fortunate in overcoming the crisis produced by some of their members.• Minna was with us and the local gentry were kind.• More valuable, and usually more visible, were the regionalgentry attracted to the duke's service.• Nor did he have to worry for long about hostility on the part of the gentry.• Nearly two-thirds of the town's 36 propertyqualifications were owned by a Warwickshire gentry family, the Goughs of Edgbaston.landed gentry• The Kingappointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentryconsidered to be their prerogative.• It was built originally by one of the old woolmerchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.• But it certainly suited the dominantlanded gentry to interpret him in that way.• Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.• There were twenty-one knights, but these too were more often lawyers, merchants and colonialadministrators rather than landed gentry.• Parliamentremaineddominated by the aristocracy and by the landed gentry.• the landed gentry• The landed gentryplanted for their grandchildrenavenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see.Origingentry(1300-1400)Old Frenchgenterise, gentelise, from gentil; → GENTLE
