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SQUIREARCHY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The gentry who own land (considered as a class)
Synonyms:
landed gentry; squirearchy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("squirearchy" is a kind of...):
aristocracy; gentry (the most powerful members of a society)