ENT
ear, nose, and throat.
ENT
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American
[ent]
/ ɛnt /
noun
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ents
plural
ENT
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British
abbreviation
-ent
2
British
suffix
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of -ent
From Latin -ent- (stem of -ēns ), present participle suffix of conjugations 2 ( -ēre, as in habēre “to have”), 3 ( -ere, as in scrībere “to write”), and 4 ( -īre, as in audīre “to hear”)
Example Sentences
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The company said it applied to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ENT.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
After the ENT retracted the camera, he looked puzzled.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
King, a laryngologist with Peak ENT and Voice Center, had been injecting Botox in the same muscle to treat people having a hard time swallowing after a stroke.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2024
Then the ENT specialist I saw had me sign up for their portal.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
IN SOLV' ENT, one unable to pay his debts.
From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles W. Sanders
Pretence′, something pretended: appearance or show to hide reality: false show or reason: pretext: assumption: claim; Preten′dant, -ent, a pretender.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
See -nce, -ncy. -ent, belonging to, as different.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Weyerhaeuser stock, which finished Tuesday at $23.28, was the subject of a bullish rec ent Barron’s profile before the investor day.
From Barron's ● Dec. 16, 2025
“No; she ent got Sylvie. Sylvie was helpin’ her yistiday,” piped Bibi.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
At Hardeeville High School, the hall clocks are all stopped at differ ent times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2016
Those little planthopper nymphs appear to be the offspring of an ent and a tribble, or perhaps shaggy sheep having bad hair days.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 10, 2015
“Sigurd ent a monster, though. He’s a man.”
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Where did all those hobbits, ents and orcs really spring from?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2019
I'd always known ents – but in the north of Nigeria, they were the solitary giants of baobab trees, stranded on parched earth on the way to some prehistoric moot.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2011
Swamp ents, in their fetid ranks, were altogether scarier.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2011
He fired his first salvo last fall, when he bluntly declared that "a large number of our military dependent children have for all practical purposes been deserted by their par ents."
From Time Magazine Archive
I will escape with Antonio, and once I’m free, I’ll call my sister and visit my par- ents and look at all my options.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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