the gentrynoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈdʒen.tri/us/ˈdʒen.tri/people of high social class, especially in the past:
a member of the landed gentry (= those who own a lot of land)
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Class & class-consciousness in general
- arriviste
- bougie
- bourgeois
- class struggle
- class-conscious
- high society
- Hooray Henry
- inverted snob
- lower class
- lowest common denominator
- polarize
- prole
- proletarian
- riff-raff
- Sloane Ranger
- underclass
- untouchable
- upper class
- upwardly mobile
- well bred
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