Kent

See also: kent, -ként, and кент

English

Etymology

From Old English Cent, from Latin Cantium, from Brythonic *Cantio (compare Old Irish céite (“gathering, folkmoot, hillock”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Proper noun

Kent

1. A maritime county in the southeast of England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.
2. A river in Cumbria, England, which flows into Morecambe Bay at Arnside.
3. A town in Connecticut
4. An unincorporated census-designated place in Republican Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, United States
5. A census-designated place in Iowa
6. A city in Minnesota
7. A town in New York
8. A city in Ohio
9. A city in Washington, United States
10. derived from the place name.
11. A male given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage; but never popular.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Fort Kent
• Kent Acres
• Kent City
• Kent County
• Kent Island

• Kentland
• Kent Narrows
• Kent Peninsula
• Kentville
• New Kent
• New Kent County
• South Kent

Translations

the English maritime county

• Arabic: كنت m (kent)
• Belarusian: Кент m (Kjent)
• Bulgarian: Кент m (Kent)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肯特郡 (zh) (kěntèjùn)

• Chuvash: Кент (Kent)
• Cornish: Kint
• Georgian: კენტი (ḳenṭi)
• Greek: Κεντ (el) n (Kent)
• Hindi: केंट (kẽṭ)
• Japanese: ケント (Kento)
• Korean: 켄트 주 (Kenteu ju)
• Latin: Cantium n
• Latvian: Kenta f
• Lithuanian: Kentas m
• Macedonian: Кент m (Kent)
• Marathi: केंट (keṇṭa)
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• Old English: Cent f
• Polish: Kent (pl) m
• Russian: Кент (ru) m (Kent)
• Scots: Kent
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ке̏нт m

  Roman: Kȅnt (sh) m

• Spanish: Kent m
• Thai: เคนต์ (Khent̒)
• Ukrainian: Кент m (Kent), Кент m (Kent)
• Urdu: کینٹ
• Uyghur: Ként
• Welsh: Caint f
• Western Panjabi: کینٹ (pnb)
• Yiddish: קענט (kent)

Anagrams

• tekn-

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Catalan

Proper noun

Kent m

1. Kent

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Danish

Proper noun

Kent

1. a male given name from English, interpreted as a short form of Kenneth.

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Kent

1. a male given name from English, interpreted as a short form of Kenneth.

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• Kenth

Etymology

Borrowed from English Kent at the same time as Kenneth. Generally interpreted as a short form of Kenneth in Scandinavia. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1923.

Proper noun

Kent c (genitive Kents)

1. a male given name.

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 31 771 males with the given name Kent living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Anagrams

• tekn.