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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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Lauren Bennett, 36, who also featured on LMFAO's 2011 hit Party Rock Anthem, was found dead in Kent on 29 May.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The transformation from on-court assassin to reserved father of two is like Clark Kent and Superman, St. Jean said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Fiery arguments have broken out among patrons at Rock's Family Diner in the Aroostook frontier town of Fort Kent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Chatham Historic Dockyard will conserve the masts, following a campaign for them to stay in Kent, as they technically remained property of the US government.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

It made me feel like Clark Kent or Peter Parker.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019

An I had kent what I ken now,25 I'd never crosst the water Tay, But stayed still at Athole's gates;— He would have made me his lady gay.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 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

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

Hastie is now our member to Parliament, and you hae disgraced the whole city o’ Glasgow, by letting a business so weel kent in his name, go to the dogs.

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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