Gentry vs. Sentry

Gentrynoun

Birth; condition; rank by birth.

Sentrynoun

A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base.

Gentrynoun

Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

Sentrynoun

(uncountable) Sentry duty; time spent being a sentry.

Gentrynoun

People of education and good breeding.

Sentrynoun

(nautical) A form of drag to be towed underwater, which on striking bottom is upset and rises to the surface.

Gentrynoun

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

Sentrynoun

A watchtower.

Gentrynoun

Birth; condition; rank by birth.

‘She conquers him by high almighty Jove,By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath.’;

Sentrynoun

A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.

Gentrynoun

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

Sentrynoun

Guard; watch, as by a sentinel.

‘Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep,Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep.’;

Gentrynoun

Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

‘To show us so much gentry and good will.’;

Sentrynoun

a person employed to watch for something to happen

Gentrynoun

the most powerful members of a society