Birth; condition; rank by birth.
Alan Grayson was right years ago and the media gentry lost their shit over his honest appraisal of Republican disregard for life.
It’s not the case that Austen looks as class as a marker of character, clearly. But look at the contrast between Mr. Gardiner and Sir William Lucas, who has pretensions of entering the gentry.
Birth; condition; rank by birth.
The manor was owned by the local gentry.
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(Britain, historical) A largely historical social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least owned a country estate.
(obsolete, UK, thieves) A gentlewoman; a lady.
(chiefly, _, historical) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK, _, law) an armigerous man ranking below a knight.
American Gentry or American Szlachta
Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
She wrote novels about the rural gentry.
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People of education and good breeding.
The manor was owned by the local gentry.
“Alan Grayson was right years ago and the media gentry lost their shit over his honest appraisal of Republican disregard for life.”
“It’s not the case that Austen looks as class as a marker of character, clearly. But look at the contrast between Mr. Gardiner and Sir William Lucas, who has pretensions of entering the gentry.”
“American Gentry or American Szlachta”
“I once supported the Buffalo Commons as an ecological project. I now support it as a tool in breaking the American gentry class in defense of democracy.”
“Stop looking for gentry. Stop looking for saviors. Stop treating political figures as celebrities. Get a fucking clue.”
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