GENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gent mean? 

• GENT (noun)
  The noun GENT has 3 senses:

1. informal abbreviation of 'gentleman'

2. a boy or man

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

  Familiarity information: GENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal abbreviation of 'gentleman'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gent" is a kind of...):

gentleman (a man of refinement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A boy or man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad

Context example:

he's a good bloke

Hypernyms ("gent" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gent"):

dog (informal term for a man)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Gand; Gent; Ghent

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Gent" is a part of...):

Belgique; Belgium; Kingdom of Belgium (a monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

 Context examples 

I see her grown up—gent'lmen—like a flower.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Carn’t yer see you’ve bloomin’ well rubbed all the gent’s skin orf?”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The old gent, he opened the door 'isself an' shut it again when I druv off.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She's more to me—gent'lmen—than—she's all to me that ever I can want, and more than ever I—than ever I could say.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It's a 'igh 'un with a stone front with a bow on it, an' 'igh steps up to the door. I know them steps, 'avin' 'ad to carry the boxes up with three loafers what come round to earn a copper. The old gent give them shillin's, an' they seein' they got so much, they wanted more; but 'e took one of them by the shoulder and was like to throw 'im down the steps, till the lot of them went away cussin'.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

They and the men generally spoke of me as “the little gent”, or “the young Suffolker.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Well said! So th' are. Mas'r Davy bor'—gent'lmen growed—so th' are!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Why, that you two gent'lmen—gent'lmen growed—should come to this here roof tonight, of all nights in my life, said Mr. Peggotty, is such a thing as never happened afore, I do rightly believe!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There's the gent'lman as you've heerd on, Em'ly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“If you two gent'lmen—gent'lmen growed now, and such gent'lmen—” said Mr. Peggotty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)