Dictionary Definition
gent
Noun
1 informal abbreviation of `gentleman'
2 a boy or man; "that chap is your host";
"there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss" [syn:
chap, fellow, feller, lad, fella, blighter, cuss]
3 port city in northwestern Belgium and
industrial center; famous for cloth industry [syn: Gand, Ghent]
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English
Etymology
From gentlemanPronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Noun
- short for gentleman
Extensive Definition
Gent may refer to any of the following:
- a shortened form of gentleman
- Dutch spelling for the city of Ghent in the Flemish region of Belgium
- a model for hyperelastic materials, see Gent (hyperelastic model)
- Gent (magazine), a men's magazine
- Gentamicin, an antibiotic
- a morpheme (in words such as contingent or agent)
- Gents, a 1997 novel by Warwick Collins
gent in French: Gent