Gent

Definitions: Gent

Gent

Noun

1. Informal abbreviation of `gentleman'.

2. A boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss".

3. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Gent \Gent\, adjective. [Old French expression gent, from the Latin expression genitus born, or (less prob.) from gentilis. See Genteel.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Gent

Commonalty

Upstart, parvenu, skipjack; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti; bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw.

Vulgarity

Rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown; (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern.

Crosswords: Gent

Afrikaan (Ghent), Catalan (people), Dutch (drake, Ghent), Flemish (Ghent), German (Ghent), Hungarian (Ghent), Lombard (folk, nation, people).

I'm afraid I don't know the gent. My mind must have been wandering. (This Island Earth; writing credit: Raymond F. Jones; Franklin Coen)

He's the hairy handed gent who ran amuck in Kent ("Werewolves of London"; performing artist: Warren Zevon)

But Clark Kent, now there was a real gent ("Superman's Song"; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies)

Gent (1969)

Barbary Coast Gent (1944)

Jimmy the Gent (1934)

De Universiteit te Gent 'officieel' geopend (1933)

Lady and Gent (1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• An Almost Perfect Gent (reference)

• Computational Intelligent Systems for Applied Research: Proceedings of the 5th International Flins Conference Gent, Belgium 16-18 September 2002 (reference)

• Gent : een stad van stoere vitaliteit en artistieke verfijning, geschraagd door de culturele erfenis van een rijk verleden = une ville dont la robuste vitalit�e et le raffinement artistique sont �etay�es par l'h�eritage culturel d'un pass�e faste = a prou (reference)

• Isam Gent 1981 (reference)

• Mexicaans Zilver Mexican Silver: Museum Voor Sierkunst, Gent 25 September-12 December 1993 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Gent (reference)

• Universiteit Gent Faculteit Van De Landbouwkundige En Toegepaste Biolo-Gische Wetenschappe (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Bach - St. Matthew Passion / Bostridge � Selig � Rubens � A. Scholl � G�ra � Henschel � Collegium Vocale Gent � Herreweghe (+ CD-Rom) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A swell gent.Credit: Library of Congress.

What every motorist knows. When you're stalled on the road, the gent with the classy clothes ...Credit: Library of Congress.

Me and the old gent. "The old gent and myself," only two-man labor-management war production drive committee in the United States. Jake Sparling, left, sixty-year-old head of Sparling Pulley Manufacturing Company, Bay City, Michigan, and Percy Fogelsonger.Credit: Library of Congress.

Me and the old gent. This two-man plant operated at Bay City, Michigan by Jake Sparling, sixty-year-old ex-lumberjack who saw his first lathe a year and a half ago, was named by Donald Nelson to head the list of 1,300 plants enrolled in the war production.Credit: Library of Congress.

Me and the old gent. Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop of the Sparling Pulley Manufacturing Company, Bay City, Michigan. He and his seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack helper were recognized by Donald Nelson as the only two-man labor- managem.Credit: Library of Congress.

Me and the old gent. "The old gent and me" form the only two-man labor-management war production drive committee in the United States. Jake Sparling Pulley Manufacturing Company at Bay City, Michigan, and his helper, seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack Pe.Credit: Library of Congress.

Me and the old gent. Jake Sparling, sixty, head of the two-man shop of the Sparling Pulley Manufacturing Company, Bay City, Michigan. He and his seventy-nine-year-old ex-lumberjack helper were recognized by Donald Nelson as the only two-man labor- managem.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "gent": gent-type.

Ending with "gent": scholar-gent.

Albanian

prej zotërie (gentlemanlike, lordly), fisnik (aristocrat, blue-blooded, gallant, generous, gentle, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gently born, grand, great, high minded, knight, knightly, lofty, moral, nobiliary, noble, nobleman, patrician). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جنتلمان مهذب (gentleman), ‏رجل (bloke, boy, buck, chap, go on foot, lad, leg, male, man, pin), ‏شخص مهذب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

господин (baboo, gentleman, master, mr.), мъжка тоалетна (gents), мъж (boomer, gentleman, he, hub, husband, male, man). (various references)

Czech

pán (gentleman, Lord, master, Mister, overlord, sirrah). (various references)

Farsi 

اقا (Don, Esquire, Gentleman, Sir). (various references)

French

gentleman (gentleman, gentlemanly), type (geezer), monsieur (gentleman, gentleman s, the gentleman). (various references)

German

Herr (arbiter, boss, chief, gentleman, leader, lord, man, master, mister, Mr, Mr., ruler, signor, sir). (various references)

Greek 

κύριος (chief, foremost, gentleman, main, master, staple). (various references)

Hungarian

férfi (bimbo, fella, feller, fellow, gentleman, gentlemen, he, jock, leading man, man, men, pansy boy, praetorian, skin). (various references)

Italian

gentiluomo (gentleman). (various references)

Pig Latin

entgay

Portuguese

modalidade (modality, mode). (various references)

Romanian

gorobete, boiernaş (country square, Lord). (various references)

Russian 

стройный (clean-limbed, harmonic, jimp, shapely, slender, svelte, willowy), элегантный (chic, elegant, genteel, silk stocking, smug, soigne, soignee, stylish), подтянутый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gospodin (baboo, duniwassal, esquire, gentleman, mister, mr., nibs, seigneur, sir, sircar). (various references)

Spanish

señor (conqueror, despot, Don, esq., esquire, gentleman, lord, lordship, man, master, Mister, Mr., overlord, seigneur, Sir, vassal), caballero (cavalier, cavalryman, Chevalier, doberman, excess of excavated material, gentleman, knight, lord, Mister, Mr., rider, side piling, Sir, sportsman). (various references)

Swedish

för gentleman. (various references)

Turkish

erkek (boy, fellow, he, he-, Jack, male, man, masculine, Tom), centilmen (gallant, gentleman, Sahib, sport, sportsman). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gent": gentamicin, gentamicins, genteel, genteeler, genteelest, genteelism, genteelisms, genteelly, genteelness, genteelnesses, gentes, gentian, gentians, gentil, gentile, gentiles, gentilesse, gentilesses, gentilities, gentility, gentle, gentled, gentlefolk, gentlefolks, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanlikenesses, gentlemanliness, gentlemanlinesses, gentlemanly, gentlemen, gentleness, gentlenesses, gentleperson, gentlepersons, gentler, gentles, gentlest, gentlewoman, gentlewomen, gentling, gently, gentoo, gentoos, gentrice, gentrices, gentries, gentrification, gentrifications, gentrified, gentrifier, gentrifiers, gentrifies, gentrify, gentrifying, gentry, gents. (additional references)

Words ending with "gent": agent, arctangent, argent, assurgent, astringent, birefringent, coagent, cogent, constringent, contingent, convergent, cotangent, counteragent, counterinsurgent, detergent, diligent, divergent, effulgent, emergent, exigent, fulgent, hyperintelligent, indigent, indulgent, insurgent, intelligent, intransigent, margent, misagent, negligent, newsagent, noncontingent, nonnegligent, nonurgent, overindulgent, plangent, preemergent, pungent, reagent, refulgent, regent, resurgent, ringent, stringent, subagent, superagent, superintelligent, tangent, turgent, unintelligent, urgent. (additional references)

Words containing "gent": agential, agenting, agentings, agentive, agentives, agentries, agentry, agents, arctangents, argental, argentic, argentiferous, argentine, argentines, argentite, argentites, argents, argentum, argentums, astringently, astringents, coagents, cogently, contingently, contingents, cotangents, counteragents, counterinsurgents, detergents, diligently, divergently, emergents, exigently, fulgently, indigents, indulgently, insurgently, insurgents, intelligential, intelligently, intelligentsia, intelligentsias, intransigently, intransigents, magenta, magentas, margented, margenting, margents, misagents, negligently, newsagents, plangently, pungently, reagents, regental, regents, stringently, subagents, superagents, tangential, tangentially, tangents, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, ungently, ungentrified, unintelligently, urgently. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: egn, Egng, ent, gahnt, ganat, gannt, ganntt, ganst, gant, Ganta, gantz, gbe-tv, gcn, geant, geen, geena, geeny, geert, gegn, Geht, geit, gend, geng, genh, geni, genk, genn, geno, gensho, genta, gente, genti, Gentn, Gento, gentr, gentt, Gentz, genu, genx, geny, genz, geot, gept, Gernot, gert, gest, geti, gett, ggen, gient, giht, Ginott, gint, ginty, gnctu, gne, gnet, gnt, goent, gont, govt, guent, guint, Gunt, Gunto, gynt, jent. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eng, gen, get, net, teg, ten.

-2 letters: en, et, ne.

+1 letter: agent, genet, gents, tenge, thegn, tinge.

+2 letters: agents, agnate, argent, cogent, cygnet, eating, engirt, englut, feting, gannet, garnet, gelant, genets, gentes, gentil, gentle, gently, gentoo, gentry, gerent, gluten, gotten, gunite, gurnet, ignite, ingate, ingest, length, magnet, meting, negate, nidget, nugget, nutmeg, regent, signet, tanged, tangle, teeing, tegmen, tewing, thegns, tieing, tinged, tinges, tingle, toeing, tonged, tonger, tongue, twinge, urgent.

+3 letters: agentry, agnates, anteing, antigen, argents, atingle, augment, banteng, beating, beignet, belting, besting, betting, coagent, cognate, congest, cygnets, denting, dieting, dragnet, easting, eatings, editing, elating, elegant, eluting, emoting, engluts, engraft, etching, eviting, exigent, exiting, felting, fetting, figment, fulgent, gahnite, gannets, gantlet, garment, garnets, gateman, gatemen, gaunter, gelants, gelatin, gellant, genetic, genette, genital, genitor, genteel, gentian, gentile, gentled, gentler, gentles, gentoos, gerents, getting, gillnet, gittern, glinted, glisten, glutens, granite, granted, grantee, granter, gratine, greaten, greenth, grunted, grunter, gruntle, grutten, gunites, gurnets, heating, hefting, henting, ignited, igniter, ignites, ingates, ingesta, ingests, ingoted, ingrate, integer, iteming, jesting, jetting, kinglet, languet, lengths, lengthy, lentigo, letting, lighten, lignite, longest, magenta, magnate, magneto, magnets, margent, meeting, megaton, melting, metring, mintage, mitogen, montage, mutagen, nametag, negated, negater, negates, negaton, negator, neglect, nesting, netting, nidgets, nighest, nightie, nuggets, nuggety, nutmegs, onstage, outgone, pageant, pelting, petting, pigment, pungent, reagent, regents, regnant, regrant, renting, resting, retting, retying, ringent, ringlet, rontgen, seating, segment, setting, signets, singlet, stanged, stengah, stewing, stinger, strange, tanager, tangelo, tangent, tangier, tangled, tangler, tangles, tangoed, tankage, tannage, teaming, tearing, teasing, tedding, teeming, teenage, tegmina, tegumen, telling, temping, tending, tensing, tentage, tenting, terming, testing, thanage, thegnly, theming, thenage, thonged, tiering, tighten, tingled, tingler, tingles, tongers, tongmen, tongued, tongues, tonnage, toughen, treeing, trepang, trudgen, trueing, tunnage, turgent, twanged, twanger, twangle, twiggen, twinged, twinges, tzigane, unguent, unitage, vantage, ventage, venting, vesting, vetoing, vetting, vintage, wantage, weeting, welting, westing, wetting, winglet, zesting.

+4 letters: abetting, abnegate, aerating, agenetic, agential, agenting, agentive, agminate, alerting, alginate, altering, angriest, angulate, antigene, antigens, argental, argentic, argentum, argument, astringe, atheling, augments, autogeny, averting, bantengs, beatings, beetling, begotten, beignets, beknight, beltings, berating, berthing, betaking, betiding, bitewing, bleating, boughten, brighten, burgonet, catering, centring, chantage, cheating, cleating, clefting, coagents, cogently, cognates, congests, coveting, creating, cresting, cultigen, cytogeny, debating, debiting, debuting, delating, deleting, demoting, denoting, deputing, derating, detoxing, devoting, diligent, dingiest, dragnets, dragonet, duetting, dungiest, earthing, eastings, egesting, egestion, eggplant, egyptian, eighteen, ejecting, electing, elongate, emergent, emigrant, emitting, emptings, emptying, enacting, enditing, engrafts, enigmata, entangle, entering, enticing, equating, erecting, eructing, erupting, escoting, estating, estragon, estrange, estrogen, etchings, eugenist, everting, evicting, exacting, exalting, exciting, exerting, existing, exulting, faceting, feasting, feinting, feltings, fetching, fettling, figments, fileting, fleeting, foughten, fragment, fretting, frighten, frontage, gahnites, galenite, gangster, ganister, gantlets, gantline, gantlope, gantries, garments, gastness, gauntest, gauntlet, gelatine, gelating, gelatins, gelation, gellants, geminate, gemstone, generate, genetics, genettes, genitals, genitive, genitors, geniture, genotype, gentians, gentiles, gentlest, gentling, gentrice, gentries, gentrify, gerontic, giantess, gillnets, ginniest, gitterns, gleeting, glistens, glutelin, gnathite, gnatlike, gnattier, gonocyte, gradient, grandest, granites, grantees, granters, gratinee, greatens, greenest, greenlet, greenths, greeting, grievant, grunters, gruntled, gruntles, guesting, gunmetal, hangnest, hearting, heighten, heisting, heptagon, histogen, ideating, igniters, indagate, indigent, ingather, ingested, ingrates, integers, integral, interage, intrigue, jelutong, jestings, jettying, judgment, kinglets, knighted, languets, latening, leftwing, legatine, legating, legation, lengthen, letching, ligament, lightens, lignites, lingiest, lodgment, longtime, magentas, magnates, magnetic, magneton, magnetos, mangiest, margents, meetings, megatons, meriting, metaling, metering, mingiest, mintages, misagent, mitering, mitogens, montaged, montages, mutagens, naething, naggiest, nametags, navigate, negaters, negating, negation, negative, negatons, negators, negatron, neglects, nestling, nettings, nettling, nighties, nitrogen, nonguest, nutsedge, octangle, ontogeny, outgiven, outrange, oxtongue, pageants, paginate, pathogen, penlight, pentagon, pestling, petering, pettings, pettling, pigments, plangent, pleating, pregnant, questing, quieting, rangiest, reacting, reagents, rebating, reciting, redating, reesting, refuting, regental, regiment, regrants, reignite, relating, remating, reputing, resiting, restring, restrung, retaking, retaping, retaxing, retching, retiling, retiming, retiring, retrying, retuning, retyping, revoting, ringlets, riveting, roentgen, rontgens, runagate, sauteing, scenting, seatings, sedating, seething, segments, sennight, sergeant, settings, settling, sheeting, signeted, singlets, sleeting, smelting, snuggest, songfest, songster, stagnate, steading, stealing, steaming, steeking, steeling, steeping, steering, steeving, stegodon, stemming, stengahs, stepping, sterling, stetting, stingers, stingier, stranger, strangle, strength, strewing, stringed, stringer, stronger, sturgeon, subagent, sweating, sweeting, tabering, tanagers, tangelos, tangence, tangency, tangents, tangible, tangiest, tanglers, tanglier, tankages, tannages, tapering, teaching, teazling, teenaged, teenager, teething, tegmenta, tegminal, tegument, tegumina, telegony, telexing, tempting, tenoning, tentages, tetragon, thanages, thenages, theogony, thieving, thronged, tightens, tingeing, tinglers, tinglier, tokening, tonnages, toughens, toweling, towering, treading, treating, trebling, trekking, trending, trepangs, triangle, trigness, trudgens, trudgeon, tungsten, tunnages, turgency, twangers, twangier, twangled, twangler, twangles, tweaking, tweeting, tweezing, tziganes, umangite, ungentle, ungently, ungifted, ungotten, unguenta, unguents, ungulate, unitages, untagged, untangle, untinged, unweight, urgently, uttering, vaginate, valeting, vantages, vegetant, ventages, vestings, vignette, vintager, vintages, wantages, watering, weltings, westings, wettings, whetting, wingiest, winglets, wresting, wrongest, yeasting, youngest, zingiest, zygotene.

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