nobility and gentry
1Gentry — generally refers to people of high social class, especially in the past. The term derives from the Latin gens , meaning a clan or extended family. It has often referred to the class of people who owned land, but its precise meaning has varied… …
2Gentry — Gen try, n. [OE. genterie, gentrie, noble birth, nobility, cf. gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. genteleri high mindedness. See {Gent}, a., {Gentle}, a.] 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. [Obs.] Pride of gentrie.… …
3Nobility — Nobles redirects here. For other uses, see Nobles (disambiguation). For other uses, see Noble (disambiguation). Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society,… …
4Gentry, Charter to the — ▪ Russian history also called Charter to the Nobility , formally Charter for the Rights, Freedoms, and Privileges of the Noble Russian Gentry , Russian Zhalovannaya Gramota Dvoryanstvu (“Given Charter for the Gentry”) , or Gramota Na Prava,… …
5gentry — n. [Eng.] Middle class, people of good position (between the nobility and the vulgar) …
6gentry — c.1300, nobility of rank or birth, from O.Fr. genterise, variant of gentilise noble birth, gentleness, from gentil (see GENTLE (Cf. gentle)). Meaning noble persons is from 1520s. Earlier in both senses was gentrice (c.1200 as nobility of… …
7Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales — The Catholic Church in England and Wales is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, the Christian Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict XVI. It traces its origins to the original Christian community founded by… …
8Great Northern War and Norway — The Great Northern War was the war fought between a coalition of Denmark–Norway, Russia and Saxony Poland (from 1715 also Prussia and Hanover) on one side and Sweden on the other side from 1700 to 1721. It started by a coordinated attack on… …
9Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of, marquess of Douro, marquess of Wellington, earl of Wellington, Viscount Wellington of Talavera and of Wellington, Baron Douro or Wellesley — ▪ prime minister of Great Britain Introduction byname Iron Duke born May 1, 1769, Dublin, Ire. died Sept. 14, 1852, Walmer Castle, Kent, Eng. British army commander during the Napoleonic Wars and later prime minister of Great Britain (1828–30) …
10Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff — The inexorably linked careers of Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff trace a specialty of engraved views of English country houses, represented in minute detail from the bird s eye view that was a long established pictorial convention for topography. Their …
