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• brent
  brent

  noun

  brant.
• Brent
  Brent

  noun

  Margaret, 1600?–1671?, U.S. colonial landowner, born in England: regarded as an early feminist.

brent

¹ American  

[brent] / brɛnt /

noun

brents plural

1. brant.

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Brent ² American  

[brent] / brɛnt /

noun

1. Margaret, 1600?–1671?, U.S. colonial landowner, born in England: regarded as an early feminist.

2. a borough of Greater London, England.

3. a male given name.

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Brent British  

/ brɛnt /

noun

1. a borough of NW Greater London. Pop: 267 800 (2003 est). Area: 44 sq km (17 sq miles)

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Inflected Forms

noun

• brents
  plural
• brent
  plural

Example Sentences

Red diesel, a fuel used by farmers in off-road vehicles, machinery and heating has seen its price pushed up by the soaring cost of brent crude - the global benchmark for oil prices.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

U.S. benchmark crude oil was at $75.25 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Friday, while brent crude, the international standard, was at $78.74 per barrel.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023

Light crude oil fell by 1.49% during the Asian session to $39.69 a barrel while brent crude slipped 1.25%.

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2020

A barrel of brent crude oil costs roughly $50 more today than it did back then.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2011

And also thei brent a good open towne callid Popryng, and many other villages; and a towne was callid Belle and so furth, West Flaundres; and our shippes brent an ile callid Cagent.”

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir