HOW TO PRONOUNCE
gent
/dʒɛnt/
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What does gent mean?
noun
- A gentleman.
- Clipping of gentamicin.
proper noun
- A surname.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- Alternative form of Ghent, Belgium; from Dutch Gent.
adjective
- (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
- (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant
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IPA pronunciation
/dʒɛnt/
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They and the men generally spoke of me as ‘the little gent’, or ‘the young Suffolker.’
But that the “gent” is the average type of this class, I should utterly deny from such experience as I have had.
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“Yes, but they are all poor places. No gent puts up at them—all the gents by the railroad put up at the railroad hotel.”
“Never used no key nor nothink. The old gent, he opened the door ’isself an’ shut it again when I druv off. I don’t remember the last time--but that was the beer.”
The hero is Nicholas Culpeper, Gent., whose picture is here given.