gentry
乡绅,绅士,绅士们
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Definitions
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- : wellborn and well-bred people.
- : the class below the nobility.
- : an upper or ruling class; aristocracy.
- : those who are not members of the nobility but are entitled to a coat of arms, especially those owning large tracts of land.
- : people, especially considered as a specific group, class, or kind: The polo crowd doesn't go there, but these hockey gentry do.
- : the state or condition of being a gentleman.
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Examples
But the new rich, particularly the young, tend to be more progressive, or at least gentry liberal.
Last week was a good week for natural gas, but a bad one for green gentry liberalism.
Gentry domination requires allies with a broader social base and their own political power.
The urban gentry and intelligentsia, though, disdained this voluntary migration.
The Beltway gentry gets a great deal on government-provided health care—but they think your plan needs cutting.
The miserable ignorance of the peasantry is a disgrace to the landed gentry, and loudly calls for reform.
It was played by particular request of one of the pepper-and-salt gentry.
The Tory gentry, who were powerful in all the counties, had special grievances.
In the two other parts the tradespeople and the gentry reside; they have an incomparably better aspect.
None but nobles and gentry are knights, and none but these will remain to dance to our music after that episode.