gentry

About 3.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Birth; condition; rank by birth.
2. noun Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
3. noun People of education and good breeding.

   landed gentry

4. noun In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

Similar words

aristocracy elite patricians gentlefolk upper-class nobility bluebloods socialites well-born genteel

Often followed by

and of in were who to had was as

Word family

gentries