Definition of "gentry" in English

noun

1. Birth; condition; rank by birth.

2. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

3. People of education and good breeding.

   • landed gentry
   • English gentry
   • wealthy gentry
   • The manor was owned by the local gentry.
   • She wrote novels about the rural gentry.

4. (British) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.