Difference between Gentry and Aristocracy

GENTRY vs ARISTOCRACY: NOUN

People of gentle birth, good breeding, or high social position.
An upper or ruling class.
The class of English landowners ranking just below the nobility.
People of a particular class or group.
Noble birth or lineage; gentility.
Family; gens.
Gentle breeding or manners; courtesy; civility.
A gentle or noble quality or action; a gentlemanly characteristic.
The class of well-born and well-bred people; people of good position; in England, the class of people of means or leisure below the rank of the nobility, sometimes called the upper middle class.
Persons of a particular class: usually applied in ironical civility to persons of an inferior sort.
Birth; condition; rank by birth.
People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
The most powerful members of a society

The most powerful members of a society
A privileged class holding hereditary titles
A class of people considered (not normally universally) superior to others
Government by such a class, or a state with such a government
The nobility, or the hereditary ruling class
The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.
A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.
A ruling body composed of the best citizens.
Government by the best citizens.
A hereditary ruling class; nobility.
A body of persons holding exceptional prescriptive rank or privileges; specifically, a class of hereditary nobility; the nobles of a country and those nearly related to them.
A form of government in which the supreme power is exercised by those members of the state who are distinguished by their rank and opulence.
Government by the best men in the state; a governing body composed of the best men in the state.
A group or class considered superior to others.
A state having such a government.
Government by the citizens deemed to be best qualified to lead.
A state or country having this form of government.
Government by a ruling class.
Persons noted for superiority in any character or quality, taken collectively: as, the aristocracy of wealth or of culture.

Viscounts, Nobles, Aristos, Toffs, Upper crust, Aristocrats, Gentility, Landed gentry, Bourgeois, Yeomanry, Bourgeoisie, Peasantry, Nobility, Elite, Aristocracy

Autocracy, Proletariat, Noblesse oblige, Petite bourgeoisie, Feudalism, Bourgeois, Upper crust, Peasantry, Bourgeoisie, Oligarchy, Peerage, Wealthy, Elite, Nobility, Gentry

Noblemen, Nobles, Aristos, Toffs, Upper crust, Aristocrats, Gentility, Landed gentry, Bourgeois, Yeomanry, Bourgeoisie, Peasantry, Nobility, Elite, Aristocracy

Autocracy, Proletariat, Noblesse oblige, Petite bourgeoisie, Feudalism, Bourgeois, Upper crust, Peasantry, Bourgeoisie, Oligarchy, Peerage, Wealthy, Elite, Nobility, Gentry

Gentry at the YVEDDI Surry County Senior Center.
Discover the Certified difference at Gentry Chevrolet Inc.
West Gentry Parkway is located at Tyler, Texas.
Burgley and Walsingham were products of the gentry.
Lords Lieutenant and gentry Justices of the Peace.
Nobility, noblesse, gentry, peerage, body of nobles, the quality, persons of rank, nobility and gentry.
The Sue Gentry Index was created by Sue Gentry, a journalist and local historian living in Jackson County.
The gentry, as gentry, was not the ruling class in Russia.
Clay, said the meetings with Gentry for Jaynes and Cosgrove will take place Monday, after Gentry granted a continuance.
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In the first half of the nineteenth century the aristocracy of genius was already well on its way to replacing the aristocracy of birth.
To the Framers, a sustainable political society required an aristocracy of virtue and talent, rather than an aristocracy of power and wealth.
Over many decades, monarchy gave way to aristocracy, aristocracy to oligarchy, and then oligarchy to democracy.
Aristocracy is not an institution: aristocracy is a sin; generally a very venial one.
We have replaced an aristocracy of inherited family status with an aristocracy of credentialing.
In most third world countries the landed aristocracy is replaced by the educated (mostly foreign-educated) aristocracy.
Chief amongst these in British aristocracy romance would be, er, destroying the entire system of British aristocracy.
There is no aristocracy in the Christian calendar but the aristocracy of good works and moral desert.
The Japanese aristocracy was still nominally a warrior aristocracy and everyone possessed armor and practiced with weapons.
They would be an aristocracy, though certainly the most contemptible aristocracy with which a country was ever cursed.