Ghent

American  

[gent] / gɛnt /

noun

1. a port in northwestern Belgium, at the confluence of the Scheldt and Lys rivers: treaty 1814.

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Ghent British  

/ ɡɛnt /

noun

1. French name: Gand.  Flemish name: Gent.  an industrial city and port in NW Belgium, capital of East Flanders province, at the confluence of the Rivers Lys and Scheldt: formerly famous for its cloth industry; university (1816). Pop: 229 344 (2004 est)

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Example Sentences

The ministry said it was sending experts to Ghent, Belgium to examine the photos and to talk to a collector of Third Reich memorabilia who had put them on sale on Ebay on Saturday.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

Lotus was founded in 1932 in a village near the medieval city of Ghent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

The higher levels of chlorate were discovered during routine testing at the company's production facility in Ghent, Belgium, according to an unnamed company spokesperson quoted by the AFP news agency.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

Andra Ghent, a professor of finance at the University of Utah, said the changes on their own aren’t likely to have much of an effect.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2024

Von Tschermak had been a graduate student at Halle and in Ghent, where, working on pea hybrids, he had also observed hereditary traits moving independently and discretely, like particles, across generations of hybrids.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee