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the gentry
noun[ plural ]
uk /ˈdʒen.tri/ us /ˈdʒen.tri/
people of high social class, especially in the past: （尤指旧时的）上流社会人士，绅士阶层
a member of the landed gentry (= those who own a lot of land)乡绅中的一员
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Class & class-consciousness in general
anti-bourgeois
anti-snob
arriviste
bougie
gentrification
gentrify
go/come down in the worldidiom
go/come up in the worldidiom
heap
petty bourgeois
pleb
plebby
plebeian
the bottom of the heapidiom
the petite bourgeoisie
the upper crust
underclass
ungenteel
ungentrified
upper class
gentry | American Dictionary
gentry
plural noun
us/ˈdʒen·tri/
people of high social class:
His diaries provide an intimate look at the life of the gentry in 18th-century Virginia.
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