gentry

Meanings

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

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
3. A city in Benton County, Arkansas.
4. A village in Gentry County, Missouri.
5. An unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas.

Etymology

From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.