gent

See also: Gent

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1

Short for gentleman.

Noun

gent (plural gents)

  1. (colloquial) A gentleman.

Etymology 2

From Old French gent, ultimately from Latin genitum (“born”).

Adjective

gent (comparative more gent, superlative most gent)

  1. (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
    • Chaucer
      A knight [who] was fair and gent.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
      He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent, / That him againe lou'd in the least degree [...].
  2. (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant
    • Spenser
      Her body gent and small.

Etymology 3

Noun

gent (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for gentamicin.

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈʒent/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈʒen/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒent/

Etymology

From Latin gēns, gentis.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈʒent/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /ˈʒen/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒent/
  • Rhymes: -ent

Noun

gent f (uncountable)

  1. people, folk

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Etymology

Latin gentis, plural of gens.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒɑ̃/

Noun

gent f (plural gents or gens)

  1. (obsolete) people, nation
  2. (obsolete) tribe
  3. company, those who are in accompaniment

Adjective

gent (feminine singular gente, masculine plural gents, feminine plural gentes)

  1. (obsolete or humorous) nice, pleasant, or noble, speaking of a person or thing

Further reading

Middle Dutch

Noun

gent ?

  1. Ghent (a city)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • “ghent”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Old French

Etymology

Latin gens

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒãnt/
  • Rhymes: -ãnt

Noun

gent f (oblique plural genz or gentz, nominative singular gent, nominative plural genz or gentz)

  1. population; people
    la Franceise gent - the French people

Adjective

gent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gente)

  1. fair; beautiful

Declension

Swedish

Adjective

gent

  1. absolute indefinite neuter form of gen.
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