gentry
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Old French genterise. By surface analysis, gentle (“well-born; of a good family or respectable birth”) + -ry (suffix indicating "a class, group, or collection of").
gentry (countable and uncountable, plural gentries)
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