gentry

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n. 贵族们

发音

US /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/

词形变化

gentries 复数 gentries

教材释义与例句

名词

人们（多用贬义）；贵族们；（英）上流社会人士

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Birth; condition; rank by birth.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    People of education and good breeding.

    可数 不可数

    landed gentry

    English gentry

    wealthy gentry

    The manor was owned by the local gentry.

    She wrote novels about the rural gentry.

  4. 4.

    In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

    仕绅

    士绅

    缙绅

    可数 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

aristocracy

上位词 2

upper class upper crust

下位词 2

landed gentry squirearchy

相关短语

gentry mort gentry morts gentry cove gentry coves Gentry County gentry cove's ken gentry cove's kens gentry cofe gentry bush gentry bushes landed gentry [网络] 乡绅；地主绅士；土地贵族

词源

From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.

来源：wiktionary