Gentry vs. Nobility — What's the Difference?

People of gentle birth, good breeding, or high social position.

Nobility is a social class normally ranked immediately below royalty and found in some societies that have a formal aristocracy. Nobility has often been an estate of the realm that possessed more acknowledged privilege and higher social status than most other classes in society.

An upper or ruling class.

A class of persons distinguished by high birth or rank and in Great Britain including dukes and duchesses, marquises and marchionesses, earls and countesses, viscounts and viscountesses, and barons and baronesses

The class of English landowners ranking just below the nobility.

Noble rank or status

People of a particular class or group

The state or quality of being exalted in character.

Birth; condition; rank by birth.

A noble or privileged social class, historically accompanied by a hereditary title; aristocracy.

Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

(uncountable) The quality of being noble.

People of education and good breeding.

The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

(British) In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.

Birth; condition; rank by birth.

Those who are noble; the collective body of nobles or titled persons in a state; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.

People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.

A privileged class holding hereditary titles

Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

The quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct

The most powerful members of a society

The state of being of noble birth