Difference between Gentry and Aristocracy

Gentry

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Birth; condition; rank by birth. Courtesy; civility; complaisance.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: People of education and good breeding. In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.

Aristocracy

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The nobility, or the hereditary ruling classGovernment by such a class, or a state with such a governmentA class of people considered (not normally universally) superior to others

Example sentence: Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.