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Centry vs Gentry - What's the difference?

centry | gentry |

As nouns the difference between centry and gentry

is that centry is obsolete form of sentry while gentry is birth; condition; rank by birth.

As a proper noun Gentry is

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centry

English

Noun

(centries)
    • (Gray)
    (Webster 1913)

    gentry

    English

    Noun

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

    • Synonyms

    * the quality, the Quality

    Related terms

    * gentrification