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Definitions: Gentry |
GentryNoun1. The most powerful members of a society. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gentry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Gentry \Gen"try\, noun. [from Old English expression genterie, gentrie, noble birth, nobility, compare to gentrise, and Old French gentelise, genterise, English gentilesse, also Old English genteleri high-mindedness. See Gent, adjective, Gentle,]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: GentrySynonym: aristocracy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nobility | Gentry, gentlefolk; squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates; pantisocracy. |
Possessor | Land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord; lord of the manor, lord paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord; planter. |
Thief | Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gentry |
| English words defined with "gentry": aloof, assuredly ♦ Court guide ♦ Esq, esquire ♦ landed gentry ♦ Pospolite ♦ Ragman's roll ♦ Squirarchy, squirearchy ♦ The quality. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gentry": 64453 ♦ 72734 ♦ Bachelor's Porch ♦ GENTRY COVE, GENTRY COVE KEN, GENTRY MORT ♦ Light-fingered Gentry, Linsey-woolsy Million, Lowlanders of Attiea ♦ Meals ♦ Podsnap, Podsnappery ♦ Ropes. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gentry" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (gentry). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Royalty, nobility, the gentry.. (Sleeping Beauty; writing credit: Milt Banta; Winston Hibler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Bobbie Gentry Show (1974) Country Sounds: Bobbie Gentry & Mac Davis (1969) Bobbie Gentry (1968) Ruby Gentry (1952) Bruce Gentry (1949) | |
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 | Gentry Bros. circus Miss Louise Hilton, the greatest rider the world has ever known / / National Ptg & Eng. Co., Chicago, New York & St. Louis.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | John R. Gentry.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Jeeter Gentry, Elmer Thompson and Fiddlin' Bill Henseley, Asheville, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Part of shop class in school with Robert Gentry, teacher, in center at machine. Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There are five centuries of a Raoul de Faux, Jean de Faux, and Thomas de Faux, who were of the gentry, one of whom was a lord of Rochefort. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He observed that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry I had mentioned gaming. |
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Economic History | Rwanda | The Tutsis established a monarchy headed by a mwami (king) and a feudal hierarchy of Tutsi nobles and gentry. (references) |
Lithuania | The 16th century witnessed a number of wars against the growing Russian state over the Slavic lands ruled by the GDL. Coupled with the need for an ally in those wars, the wish of the middle and petty gentry to obtain more rights already granted to the Polish feudal lords drew Lithuania closer to Poland. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gentry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.38% of the time. "Gentry" is used about 676 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.38% | 665 | 9,875 |
| Noun (common) | 1.48% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.15% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 676 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gentry" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gentry | Last name | 18,000 | 674 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Canada | GENTRY RESOURCES LTD |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Gentry, AR (city, FIPS 26290) 2. Gentry, MO (village, FIPS 26776) |
Expressions using "gentry": Ewa Gentry ♦ Gentry County ♦ landed gentry ♦ these gentry. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gentry": gentry-patricians. | |
Ending with "gentry": non-gentry. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
montgomery gentry | 1,000 |
gentry lyrics montgomery | 128 |
gentry lyrics montgomery speed | 91 |
gentry | 87 |
bobbie gentry | 75 |
gentry arkansas | 55 |
bobby gentry | 48 |
gentry montgomery speed | 39 |
gentry troy | 26 |
gentry group | 17 |
home of the gentry | 17 |
gentry merry | 15 |
movado gentry | 13 |
bill gentry | 12 |
gentry heather | 12 |
by ewa gentry | 12 |
gentry mongomery | 12 |
gentry montgomery tab | 11 |
gentry lyrics montgomery town | 10 |
chris gentry | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gentry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zotërinjtë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الطبقة العليا, الأهل, شرف المحتد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хора от по-горна класа, хора от дадено съсловие, хора от дадена категория, дребно дворянство. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 名流 (celebrities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | venkovská šlechta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | landadel (landed gentry, landed nobility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | landadel (landed gentry, landed nobility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مردمان محترم وباتربیت , تربیت (Civility, Manner, Nurture, Pedagogy, Steerage, Upbringing), اصالت (Ism, Originality), ادب (Complaisance, Curtsy, Decorum, Manner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | herrasväki (gentlefolk, master and mistress, people of good family). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | petite noblesse, parents, noblesse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Leute (folk, folks, people, persons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οι ευγενείσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מיוחסים (gentlefolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | köznemesség, dzsentri, szívélyesség (complacency, complaisance, cordiality, geniality, heartiness, kindliness, soul of kindness), nyájasság (affability, comeliness, friendliness, honey, kindness, loving-kindness, suavity), köznemesi osztály. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | golongan baik-baik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | piccola nobilt . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sleih ooasley (gentlefolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | lavadelen, fornemme folk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entrygay nobre (aristocrat, chivalrous, gallant, gentle, great, high, illustrious, kingpin, knit, lord-like, noble, nobleman, peer, royal, soulful, sublime, whole-souled). (various references) oameni (folk, men, people, public), micã nobilime. (various references) джентри. (various references) gospodski stalež. (various references) alta burguesía. (various references) societet (society), lågadel. (various references) seçkinler (beautiful people, choice, cream of society, elite, four hundred, notables, the great), kibar tabaka, üst tabaka (classes, facing, superstratum, upper circle, upper class, upper classes). (various references) джентрі. (various references) tầng lớp quý tộc nhỏ ghuộm hạng người. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "gentry": agentry. (additional references) | |
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"Gentry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gangry, ganrtry, genery, Gennari, gentr, gentra, gentri, getty, gety, ginty, Glenroy, Gundry, gunry, ventry. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gentry" (pronounced je"ntrē) |
| 5 | -e" n t r ē | complementary, elementary, entry, sentry. |
| 4 | -n t r ē | carpentry, country, gallantry, gantry, infantry, pageantry, pantry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry, reentry, wintry. |
| 3 | -t r ē | ancestry, artistry, asymmetry, banditry, baptistery, basketry, bigotry, biochemistry, cabinetry, chemistry, circuitry, dentistry, dissymmetry, forestry, gadgetry, geochemistry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, industry, Maestri, ministry, mitre, optometry, palmistry, paltry, pastry, poetry, poultry, psychiatry, punditry, puppetry, registry, rocketry, spectrometry, sultry, summitry, symmetry, tapestry, telemetry, toiletry, zealotry. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: entry. | |
-2 letters: gent, grey, gyre, rent, tern, trey, tyer, tyne, tyre. | |
-3 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, get, gey, net, reg, ret, rye, teg, ten, try, tye, yen, yet. | |
-4 letters: en, er, et, ne, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: agentry, retying. | |
+2 letters: gentrify, retrying, retyping, turgency, urgently. | |
+3 letters: betraying, estraying, integrity, oystering, pageantry, prettying, pretyping, restyling, sergeanty, strangely, strongyle, synergist, yattering, youngster. | |
+4 letters: bedirtying, certifying, curtseying, decrypting, destroying, detergency, encrypting, everything, eyestrings, generality, generosity, goniometry, gyniatries, heterogeny, heterogony, integrally, metrifying, oxygenator, oysterings, panegyrist, petrifying, pigmentary, pregnantly, putrefying, rectifying, restudying, retiringly, rivetingly, roystering, segmentary, sterlingly, stringency, strongyles, synergetic, synergists, terrifying, torrefying, tourneying, toweringly, trichogyne, trolleying, tutoyering, youngsters. | |
+5 letters: arrestingly, astringency, banteringly, congruently, courtesying, cryptogenic, dehydrating, denigratory, designatory, divergently, esterifying, etherifying, ethnography, falteringly, fragmentary, gentrifying, gerontology, glycerinate, granulocyte, hectoringly, hydrogenate, insurgently, integrality, interagency, interlaying, keystroking, negotiatory, outwearying, overstaying, oxygenators, panegyrists, potteringly, prettifying, proselyting, rehydrating, rejectingly, renotifying, repugnantly, revoltingly, sovereignty, stenography, stringently, synergistic, tapestrying, terminology, totteringly, travestying, trichogynes, trypsinogen, typewriting, witheringly, yesternight. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6E 74 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . -. - .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e n t r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006E 0074 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)417180868491 |
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