Gentry

The gentry is a social class of landowners. In Chinese history, ''gentry'' has a specific meaning and refers to the shen-shi or the class of landowners that had passed the Imperial examination in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In European history ''gentry'' refers to well-to-do or wealthy England landowners below the level of nobility. They played an important role in the English Civil War of the seventeenth century. See landed gentry. In United States society, Gentry (U.S.) refers to a highly-educated professional upper-middle class. Social groups

Gentry

I would consider this article a stub. Some explanation of theBritish gentry, in contrast to the nobility, seems in place here.

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