squirearchy

squirearchy

English

Alternative forms

• squirarchy

Etymology

squire +‎ -archy[1]

Noun

squirearchy (plural squirearchies)

1. The landowning gentry.
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Babbitt:

     Now, as one of the squirearchy, greeted with honorable salutations by the villagers, he marched into his office, and peace and dignity were upon him, and the morning's dissonances all unheard.

   • 1930 [Cambridge University Press], G. G. Coulton, The Medieval Scene: An Informal Introduction to the Middle Ages, 2000, Dover, page 37,

     We may characterise medieval village government not unfairly as squirearchy, though often a benevolent squirearchy enough, just as the squirearchy of the eighteenth century was often benevolent also.

   • 1972, James A. Burkhart, Samuel Krislov, Raymond Lawrence Lee, American Government: the Clash of Issues, Prentice-Hall, page 92,

     For many years a combination of rural squirearchies and business interests held tight control of most state capitols.

Translations

landowning gentry

Bulgarian: земевладелци (bg) m pl (zemevladelci) Danish: landadel c Dutch: landadel (nl) French: noblesse de provence f

References

• squirearchy at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SQUIREARCHY”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, OCLC 81937840.

1. Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016), “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future‎, Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225

Further reading

• Landed gentry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia