[jen-tree] 
| 1. | wellborn and well-bred people. |
| 2. | (in England) the class below the nobility. |
| 3. | an upper or ruling class; aristocracy. |
| 4. | those who are not members of the nobility but are entitled to a coat of arms, esp. those owning large tracts of land. |
| 5. | (used with a plural verb ) people, esp. considered as a specific group, class, or kind: The polo crowd doesn't go there, but these hockey gentry do. |
| 6. | the state or condition of being a gentleman. |
| gen·try (jěn'trē) n. pl. gen·tries
[Middle English gentri, nobility of birth, from Old French genterie, variant of genterise, gentilise, from gentil, noble; see gentle.] |