gent
noun
gent
1 American
[jent]
/ dʒɛnt /
noun
-
gents
plural
gent
2
American
[jent]
/ dʒɛnt /
adjective
Obsolete.
Gent
3
American
[kh ent]
/ xɛnt /
noun
Gent.
4
American
Or
gent.
abbreviation
Gent
1
British
/ xɛnt /
noun
gent
2
British
/ dʒɛnt /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gent1
First recorded in 1555–65; by shortening
Origin of gent2
1175–1225; Middle English < Old French < Latin genitus begotten, born
Example Sentences
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Recently, I hiked Griffith Park with a 100-year-old gent, Pete Teti, who is all about embracing change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
A well-educated cosmopolitan gent whose inherited family riches were expanded under his watch, a man who understood the economy and helped people manage their money, which was how he made money of his own.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2023
Only in the last verse does the listener learn that it wasn’t a woman who left the now crazed gent, but a dog.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
UB40's Judge Jules described Jazz as an "incredible talent and a complete gent", while DJ and radio presenter Mistajam remarked that Jazz's "words and performances touched so many of us".
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2022
This caused laughter around the table, which Mr Taylor next to me explained by saying: 'That was a gent used to live in the big house not far from here, sir.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
This season they lost to Motherwell in the 85th minute and shipped goals in the 84th and 90th minute against Gent to exit the Conference League.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
“A really practical consideration is just the hair and make-up process of aging someone up or down,” said the screenwriter Holly Gent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
“We don’t have to stick to the cause-and-effect of which people are going to reappear later in the story,” Gent noted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
But as the script by Holly Gent and Vincent Palmo Jr. notes, this clique is in transition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
Six years later the Registry of Deeds at Salem told of the sale, to Richard Leader, Gent, of England, of a bit of the farm on which Governor Broadstreet held a mortgage.
From Historic Shrines of America Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable by John T. (John Thomson) Faris
"I've met with the parents of Terri, her ex-partner, and also the parents of Connie Gent. I think all of them were shocked by what we had found."
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
In the Brooke-Dethick feud, it becomes clear that “Shakespeare, Gent. from Stratford” and “Shakespeare the Player” are the same man.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 7, 2017
“There is no woe to this correction,” Two Gent. ii.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
Another alms-house for six poor widows, was built and endowed about the year 1723, under the will of John Garrett, Gent., who bequeathed £800. for that purpose.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Enter a Gent. and 2 or 3 with Mony.
From Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject by Francis Beaumont
FBI Director Kash Patel on Wednesday highlighted a separate partnership with the UFC to teach federal gents "amazing tactics so they can safeguard American lives."
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Schauffele's picture adorns the entrance to the gents loos in the media centre.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
“My cliquish world consisted of ladies and gents from Manhattan’s exclusive private schools and preppies down from New England boarding schools who played bit-parts on weekends and holidays,” she wrote.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
A group of seven ever-so-proper ladies and gents, with ramrod-straight posture and pinkies extended, are seated in a row of wooden chairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
“Go and see what those gents in the Terrace Room want,” he said.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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