Usually means: Refined people of good social standing.
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  1. gentlefolk: Merriam-Webster
  2. gentlefolk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gentlefolk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gentlefolk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gentlefolk: Vocabulary.com
  6. gentlefolk: Wordnik
  7. gentlefolk: Wiktionary
  8. gentlefolk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. gentlefolk (gentlefolks): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gentlefolk: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Gentlefolk, gentlefolk: Dictionary.com
  12. Gentlefolk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Gentlefolk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. gentlefolk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. gentlefolk: FreeDictionary.org
  16. gentlefolk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. gentlefolk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. gentlefolk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ noun:  (archaic) People of superior social position.

Similar:
gentleperson, gentle or simple, gentry, gentility, gentle-heartedness, gentle and simple, gentleman, gentlehood, gentleship, genteelism, more...

Opposite:
commoners, plebeians, proletariat

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Similar:
gentleperson, gentle or simple, gentry, gentility, gentle-heartedness, gentle and simple, gentleman, gentlehood, gentleship, genteelism, more...

Opposite:
commoners, plebeians, proletariat



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