landed gentry

1. 1.

   the gentry who own land (considered as a class)

   Synonymssquirearchy

   Broadergentry

Questions about landed gentry

What does landed gentry mean?

landed gentry means "the gentry who own land (considered as a class)".

What is another word for landed gentry?

Close synonyms include squirearchy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is landed gentry a common word?

landed gentry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.