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Gentry vs Junker - What's the difference?

gentry | junker |

As a proper noun gentry

is .

As a noun junker is

.

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

    junker

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), a contraction of ; compare English young and herre; also younker.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Professors of philosophy and science carrying high the patriotic banner of Kultur and culture gloried in the system of compulsory, universal, military service, first made in Germany exulted in the degrading, vicious process of training by which the individual is hypnotized into submission to a brutal organization of military junkers , hallowed by the name of state and Fatherland, it was the darkest period in the history of mankind.
    Alternative forms
    * Junker
    Derived terms
    * junkerdom * junkerish * junkerism

    References

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A beat-up automobile.