gent

See also Gent

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Etymology 1

From gentleman.

Noun

gent (plural gents)

1. A gentleman.

Related terms

• genteel
• gentile
• gentle

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.

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Catalan

Noun

gent f (uncountable)

1. people, folk

See also

• persona

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French

Etymology

Latin gentis, plural of gens.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʒɑ̃/

Noun

gent f (plural gents)

1. people, nation
2. tribe

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Old French

Etymology

Latin gens

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʒãnt/
• Rhymes: -ãnt

Noun

gent f (oblique plural gens, nominative singular gent, nominative plural gens)

1. population; people

   la Franceise gent - the French people

Adjective

gent

1. fair; beautiful

Declension

  Declension of gent  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	gens	gente	gent
	Oblique	gent	gente	gent
Plural	Subject	gent	gentes	gent
	Oblique	gens	gentes	gent

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Swedish

Adjective

gent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of gen.