Gentry

Gentry means “well-born people”. The word comes from the latin word gentis which means “clan” or “extended family”. In England, gentry is the social class below the aristocracy. It gets its income from large landholdings.Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary (1996) p.798

Related pages
 Aristocracy
 Feudalism
 Manorialism
 Nobility

 Notes 

 References 
 Peter Coss, The Origins of the English Gentry. Past and Present Publications. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2003). 

Category:Social classes