gent

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Short for gentleman.

gent (plural gents)

1. (colloquial) A gentleman.

• genteel
• gentile
• gentle

From Old French gent, ultimately from Latin genitum (“born”).

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.

gent (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for gentamicin.

• Teng

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin gentem, accusative of gēns, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈʒent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈʒen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒent/
• Rhymes: -ent

gent f (uncountable)

1. people, folk

• gentada

• “gent” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

From Old French gent, from Latin gens, gentem. Cf. gens.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑ̃/

gent f (plural gents or gens)

1. (obsolete) people, nation
2. (obsolete) tribe
3. company, those who are in accompaniment

gent (feminine singular gente, masculine plural gents, feminine plural gentes)

1. (obsolete or humorous) nice, pleasant, or noble, speaking of a person or thing

• “gent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

gent ?

1. Ghent (a city)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: Gent

• “ghent”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

From Old French gentis or gentem, from gens.

• IPA^(key): /dʒãnt/
• Rhymes: -ãnt

gent f (oblique plural genz or gentz, nominative singular gent, nominative plural genz or gentz)

1. population; people

   la Franceise gent - the French people

• French: gens
• Norman: gens
• Walloon: djin

gent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular gente)

1. fair; beautiful

gent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of gen.