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TRENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Trent mean? 

TRENT (noun)
  The noun TRENT has 2 senses:

1. a river in central England that flows generally northeastward to join with the Ouse River and form the Humberplay

2. a city in northern Italy (northwest of Venice) on the River Adige; the site of the Council of Trentplay

  Familiarity information: TRENT used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TRENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in central England that flows generally northeastward to join with the Ouse River and form the Humber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

River Trent; Trent; Trent River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in northern Italy (northwest of Venice) on the River Adige; the site of the Council of Trent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Trent; Trento

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Trentino-Alto Adige (a region of northeastern Italy bordering Austria)


 Context examples 


There was a day when, from Trent to Tweed, there was no better marksman than Robin Heathcot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The authors suggested that AIM1 is a good candidate for the putative suppressor of malignant melanoma on chromosome 6 (Trent et al., 1990), possibly exerting its effects through interactions with the cytoskeleton.

(Absent in Melanoma 1, NCI Thesaurus/from OMIM)

I have no conception whom you can mean, Shepherd; I remember no gentleman resident at Monkford since the time of old Governor Trent.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Is a hairless infant to raise his tongue against me, when I have sung in every fair from Tweed to Trent, and have twice been named aloud by the High Court of the Minstrels at Beverley?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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