gentry

[EE. UU.]/'dʒentrɪ/
[Reino Unido]/ˈdʒɛntri/
Frecuencia: Muy alto

Traducción

n. la clase alta; personas de buena posición social

Oraciones de ejemplo

the newspaper gentry (=the gentry of the press)

la aristocracia de la prensa (=la aristocracia del periódico)

these parish gentry were conscious of their elevated status.

esta parroquia de la nobleza era consciente de su estatus elevado.

Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.

Los ingresos de la tierra eran la verdadera medida de la aristocracia.

radar devices beyond the comprehension of all but the bespectacled gentry who invented them.

dispositivos de radar más allá de la comprensión de todos menos la clase dirigente con gafas que los inventó.

The methods they employed were heavily biased in the gentry’s favour.

Los métodos que emplearon estaban fuertemente sesgados a favor de la aristocracia.

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

La llamada élite de cuello dorado no es esencialmente nada más que trabajadores intelectuales con altos ingresos.

Later she may have begun to kill daughters of lower gentry, who were sent to her gynaeceum by their parents to learn courtly etiquette.

Más tarde, pudo haber comenzado a matar a las hijas de la baja nobleza, que fueron enviadas a su ginecario por sus padres para aprender la etiqueta cortesana.

Chapslee offers a chance to enjoy the dandified life of the English gentry at a price which would barely buy afternoon tea in an English country house.

Chapslee ofrece la oportunidad de disfrutar de la vida ostentosa de la aristocracia inglesa a un precio que apenas permitiría comprar una taza de té por la tarde en una casa de campo inglesa.

In the afternoon, the local gentry go to some farm house and have tea, sillabub and other refreshments and then return in a... dance to the town and dance throughout the streets till dark.

Por la tarde, la aristocracia local va a alguna casa de campo y toma té, sillabub y otras bebidas, y luego regresa en un baile a la ciudad y baila por las calles hasta la oscuridad.

Ejemplos del mundo real

Virginia creepers, asters, and other colonial exotica to a delighted English gentry.

Fuente: A Brief History of Everything

You had yeomen who were sort of smaller versions of gentry.

Fuente: Yale University Open Course: European Civilization (Audio Version)

The gentry received one another, and traveled to each other's houses, in a state almost feudal.

Fuente: American Original Language Arts Volume 5

There's only so many vowels you can drop until someone realizes you're not landed gentry.

Fuente: TED Talks (Audio Version) June 2021 Collection

" Because in twenty or thirty years your landed gentry won't be here in any case" .

Fuente: The Virgin Land (Part 2)

Those gentry who wore georgette thought that the universe was geocentric.

Fuente: Pan Pan

They're cur'ous talkers i' this country, sir; the gentry's hard work to hunderstand 'em.

Fuente: Adam Bede (Part One)

So naturally, it would go to a court companion, such as, the son of a nobleman or a member of the gentry.

Fuente: 2018 Best Hits Compilation

The only genuine sport in all the fair, gentlemen—highly respectable and strictly moral—patronized by the nobility, clergy, and gentry.

Fuente: Lazy Person's Thoughts Journal

One could tell that he had frequented the best authors as assiduously as Elliott Templeton frequented the nobility and gentry.

Fuente: Blade (Part Two)

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