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Nobility vs Gentry - What's the difference?

nobility | gentry |

As nouns the difference between nobility and gentry

is that nobility is a noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy while gentry is birth; condition; rank by birth.

As a proper noun Gentry is

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nobility

English

(wikipedia nobility)

Noun

  • A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy.
  • (uncountable) The quality of being noble.

    • Synonyms

    * (class) aristocracy, upper class * (quality) nobleness

    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