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  Kentish

  adjective

  of or relating to Kent or its people.
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  kentish

  adjective

  of or relating to Kent

Kentish

American  

[ken-tish] / ˈkɛn tɪʃ /

adjective

1. of or relating to Kent or its people.

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kentish British  

/ ˈkɛntɪʃ /

adjective

1. of or relating to Kent

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noun

1. Also: Jutish.  the dialect of Old and Middle English spoken in Kent See also Anglian West Saxon

Etymology

Origin of Kentish

before 950; Middle English Kentissh, Old English Centisc. See Kent, -ish ¹

Example Sentences

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A day later, a fire was discovered at the entrance to Sir Keir's Kentish Town home, which he still owned and was being rented out to his sister-in-law, Judith Alexander.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

I wanted do that with Kentish Town, with Brick Lane, with Wembley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

He described setting his alarm for the early hours of the morning on 8 May and walking to a street in Kentish Town, north London, where he met Lavrynovych.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Frame-filling titles identify the London neighborhoods where the action takes place — Wembley, Kentish Town, Brick Lane, Ladbroke Grove — as Paris, Moscow and Mexico City might appear in an international thriller.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

Then she was posted to RAF Maidsend, an operational base for a squadron of new Spitfire fighter planes, not far from Canterbury, near the Kentish coast.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

A kentish Lord, sir; his ancestors came forth off Canterbury.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)