country gentlemen
Landed provincial nobles
Country gentlemen is the plural of country gentleman—a man of good social standing who owns rural land and lives on it without needing to work for a living.
The term evokes English landed gentry of past centuries, men who managed estates, hunted, and participated in local affairs: The country gentlemen gathered at the hunt club.
- foxhuntingMounted canine-assisted chase
- riding to houndsMounted pursuit with pack
- hunting partyPeople seeking game together
- horsesLarge domesticated hoofed mammals
- houndsDogs bred to track
landowner · squire · landed gentry · proprietor · manor · paternalism · parish church · shooting · stewardship · farmers · estate · aristocrat · gentry · rural · baronet · old money · rolling hills · agrarian economy
- landownerslandlords, farmer, rancher, freeholders, homesteader
country gentlementown dwellers
Inhabitants of a municipality
urbanites · metropolitan elite · townspeople · cosmopolitans
country gentlementradesmen
Skilled manual laborers
merchants · shopkeepers · industrialists · manufacturers · businessmen
country gentlemenpeasants
Low-ranking agricultural workers
farm laborers · serfs · tenant farmers · agricultural workers · cottagers
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