gentryの意味・使い方・発音

gentry

英 ['dʒentrɪ] 美 ['dʒɛntri]

gentry (n.): c. 1300, "nobility of rank or birth;" mid-14c., "a fashion or custom of the nobility;" late 14c., "nobility of character," from Old French genterie, genterise, variant of gentelise "noble birth, aristocracy; courage, honor; kindness, gentleness," from gentil "high-born, noble, of good family" (see gentle). Meaning "noble persons, the class of well-born and well-bred people" is from 1520s in English, later often in England referring to the upper middle class, persons of means and leisure but below the nobility. Earlier in both senses was gentrice (c. 1200 as "nobility of character," late 14c. as "noble persons"), and gentry in early use also might have been regarded as a singular of that. In Anglo-Irish, gentry was a name for "the fairies" (1880), and gentle could mean "enchanted" (1823).

1. Most of them were the nobility and the landed gentry .: 彼らの多くは貴族と地主のいなか紳士である。

2.True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.--David Tyson Gentry

本当の友情は、2人が話をしなくても、居心地がいいということだ。

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3.The Methods：They employed were heavey biased in the gentry 's favour.: 彼らが採用した方法は中上階級をひどくえこひいきしている。

4.The so-called golden-collar gentry are essentially nothing but brain-workers with high income.

いわゆる「金領貴族」は実質的に高収入の頭脳労働者にすぎない。

5.Landed income was the true measure of the gentry .: 土地からの収入は、紳士層かどうかを測定する真の基準である。