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  Kent

  noun

  James, 1763–1847, U.S. jurist.
• kent
  kent

  verb

  a past tense and past participle of ken

Kent

American  

[kent] / kɛnt /

noun

1. James, 1763–1847, U.S. jurist.

2. Rockwell 1882–1971, U.S. illustrator and painter.

3. William, 1685–1748, English painter, architect, and landscape gardener.

4. a county in SE England. 1,442 sq. mi. (3,735 sq. km).

5. an ancient English kingdom in SE Great Britain.

6. a city in NE Ohio.

7. a town in central Washington.

8. a male given name: from the Old English name of a county in England.

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Kent ¹ British  

/ kɛnt /

noun

1. a county of SE England, on the English Channel: the first part of Great Britain to be colonized by the Romans; one of the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England until absorbed by Wessex in the 9th century _ad . Apart from the Downs it is mostly low-lying and agricultural, specializing in fruit and hops. The Medway towns of Rochester and Gillingham became an independent unitary authority in 1998. Administrative centre: Maidstone. Pop (excluding Medway): 1 348 800 (2003 est). Area (excluding Medway): 3526 sq km (1361 sq miles)

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Kent ² British  

/ kɛnt /

noun

1. William. ?1685–1748, English architect, landscape gardener, and interior designer

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kent ³ British  

/ kɛnt /

verb

1. a past tense and past participle of ken

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Example Sentences

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Handyside highlighted a campaign by Kent non-league club Faversham Town to get mums into coaching - but this remains a rare example.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

It said the initiative would focus on landscapes across Cornwall's coastal grasslands, dunes and heathland as well as grazing marshes and sea walls in Kent and the upland fringe landscape of the North Pennines.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Kent turned to illustrator Alex Juhasz to create the handmade book, drawing inspiration from the eerie silhouetted animation of German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger from the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

"I can open my bedroom curtains and see dolphins out my window, it's so surreal, especially being from Kent where you don't really get much of that."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Mrs. Kent was, per Ashley, an attorney working at a big firm in Roseland.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

Especially, ask about local varieties, from keswick codlin and worcester pearmain to cornish aromatic and beauty of kent.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

And weel he kent that ladye fair45 Amang her maidens free; For the flower that springs in May morning Was not sae sweet as she.

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

I wadna hae kent ye; you were but a bit gilpie then.

From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

"Gin I had kent yestreen, yestreen, What I ken weel the day, 205 I shou'd hae taen your fu' fause heart, Gien you a heart o' clay."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Quo he, "Thou art ane Earl's ladye, And that is kent fu' fairly O; But if thou comest awa wi' me,35 Thou'lt be a queen so rarely O. "

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various