<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>wellborn and well-bred people.</li><li>(in England) the class below the nobility.</li><li>an upper or ruling class; aristocracy.</li><li>those who are not members of the nobility but are entitled to a coat of arms, especially those owning large tracts of land.</li><li>(used with a plural verb) people, especially considered as a specific group, class, or kind: The polo crowd doesn't go there, but these hockey gentry do.</li><li>the state or condition of being a gentleman.</li></ul>