gentry in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

gentry in the PONS Dictionary

gentry Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

the landed gentry
los terratenientes
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The gentry among the audience were required to pay five-shilling fines to exit.
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The preponderance of the migrants were well-to-do gentry and skilled craftsmen.
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This statement is the first evidence of cricket achieving popularity among the gentry.
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White inhabitants experienced the creation of patriarchial families, the evolution of kinship networks, and the formation of the gentry and yeoman classes.
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These changes encouraged the formation of classes through efforts by the gentry to make slaves efficient workers and devise a ruling class ideology.
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The gentry gradually lost their power locally and rebuilt their political base more on office-holding rather than landownership.
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His father came from a large family, and was related by blood and by marriage to many other gentry families throughout the valley.
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Most patrons were noblemen or landed gentry who could use their local influence, prestige, and wealth to sway the voters.
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The gentry and merchant classes started to fuse, and the merchants gained power at the expense of the state.
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Gentry finished his career with 171 receptions for 2,076 yards and seven touchdowns.
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