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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.


kentish British  
/ ˈkɛntɪʃ /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Kent

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Kentish

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

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"It's something that we see guests actively asking for," agrees Holly Willcocks, owner of Half Cut wine bar in Kentish Town, London.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

On 12 May 2025, a fire was discovered at the entrance to Sir Keir's Kentish Town home, which was being rented out.

From BBC Apr. 29, 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)

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