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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Hill was another gent from an age when drivers risked everything in cars for which safety features were a virtually non-existent consideration.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
Staten Island’s resident British vampire gent, Laszlo Cravensworth is a well-educated autodidact with varied intellectual interests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
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
Hiking ancient Roman roads, we encountered a friendly gent.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
“That gent across the street. He’s trying to get your attention.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
He got four in a 6–2 away league win over Zulte Waregem, becoming the first Gent player with a four-goal haul in one game in the 21st Century.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
“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
“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
But as the script by Holly Gent and Vincent Palmo Jr. notes, this clique is in transition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
A good memoir of him will be found in Gent.
From The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times by John Thomas Smith
"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 also a curious poem on the Horn Book by a Gent. suffering from the gout, printed at Dublin by T. Cowan, 1728, small 4to, only a few leaves.
From Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature by Edwin Pearson
See 2 Gent. of Verona, act ii. sc.
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by John Awdeley
Poem sacred to the Memory of Q Caroline, by a Gent. of Exeter.
From The Annual Catalogue: Numb. II. (1738) Or, A new and compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c. by Various
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
They launched a confetti canon and a voice called out: "We'll have to stop the show, ladies and gents, sorry."
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for — “The Greatest Showman” is coming to the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
“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
The guy driving the cargo platform told us to step aboard, step aboard, ladies and gents.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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