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gent

gent
G g

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [jent]
    • /dʒɛnt/
    • /dʒent/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [jent]
    • /dʒɛnt/

Definitions of gent word

  • noun gent Flemish name of Ghent. 1
  • adjective gent elegant; graceful. 1
  • noun gent A gentleman. 1
  • noun gent gentleman, courteous man 1
  • noun plural gent men's toilets 1
  • countable noun gent Gent is an informal and old-fashioned word for gentleman. 0

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Origin of gent

First appearance:

before 1555
One of the 31% oldest English words
First recorded in 1555-65; by shortening

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Gent

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

gent popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

gent usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for gent

noun gent

  • boy — A boy is a child who will grow up to be a man.
  • guy — a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “woods.”.
  • father — a male parent.
  • sir — a respectful or formal term of address used to a man: No, sir.
  • grandfather — the father of one's father or mother.

Antonyms for gent

noun gent

  • girl — a female child, from birth to full growth.
  • female — a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.

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