gentry

Example Sentences

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As opportunities to flex their military might diminished, samurai instead became landed gentry, taking on bureaucratic roles as tax agents, heads of fire brigades and land managers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Firstly, Holyrood is a democratically elected house rather than an assembly of aristocrats and the landed gentry.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2024

“He’s making the point that the British landed gentry aristocracy really are the original gangsters of the British class society,” says Daniel Ings, who plays the duke’s older brother.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2024

As part of the gentry but unmarried, Bridget would have lost her reputation had the illegitimate birth been known then.

From Salon • May 22, 2023

His appeal, his tears, moved all the gentry listening there; but now they saw the crier and the minstrel come from Odysseus’ hall, where they had slept.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer