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Genteel vs Gentry - What's the difference?

genteel | gentry |

As an adjective genteel

is affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite.

As a noun gentry is

birth; condition; rank by birth.

As a proper noun Gentry is

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genteel

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite.
  • Polite and well-mannered.
  • Stylish or elegant.
  • Aristocratic
  • Derived terms

    * genteelism

    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