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The gentry who own land (considered as a class)
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squirearchy
Word definitions for squirearchy in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the land-owning gentry
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. the gentry who own land (considered as a class) [syn: landed gentry ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squirarchy \Squir"arch*y\ (-[y^]), n. [Squire + -archy.] The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.
Usage examples of squirearchy.
A resident bishop, a resident dean, an archdeacon, three or four resident prebendaries, and all their numerous chaplains, vicars, and ecclesiastical satellites, do make up a society sufficiently powerful to be counted as something by the county squirearchy.
Matthew Snelgrove read his evening copy of The Bellman with a special gloomy relish, for it never failed to yield several instances in which rampant democracy had been guilty of some foolishness which could never, he was convinced, have happened under the old squirearchy -- particularly if a sufficient number of squires happened also to be lawyers.