gentry

  1. Noun.  Birth; condition; rank by birth.
  2. Noun.  Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
  3. Noun.  People of education and good breeding.
  4. Noun.  (British) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

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