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  Kent

  noun

  James, 1763–1847, U.S. jurist.
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  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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The doctor’s attorney, Philip Kent Cohen, did not immediately have a comment when reached by The Times on Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Yiannopoulos, who grew up in Kent in the south of England, was arrested on 27 August after arriving at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Itauma was born in Slovakia to a Nigerian father and a Slovak mother before moving to Kent as a young child.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The food shops, run by Social Enterprise Kent, redistribute surplus food and offer cut-price groceries.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Mr and Mrs Wakefield are an American couple who have been settled in England - somewhere in Kent, I understand - for some twenty years.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

Wait and we'll come to a conclusion. kent comes in, an open letter in his hand. kent.   This note, sir.

From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker

The gudewife, she kent how I felt, and when the Lord took her hame the hills seemed to ca' more and more on me.

From The Bushranger's Secret by Mrs. Henry Clarke

Whether the boat was capsised in a sudden squall, or the ship had struck her, or whatever it was, will never be kent till the sea gies up her dead!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various

She's smitten Sir Oluf—it strak to his heart; 30 He never before had kent sic a smart; Then lifted him up on his ambler red; "And now, Sir Oluf, ride hame to thy bride."

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