English
gent
Pronunciation Noun

gent (plural gents)

  1. (colloquial) A gentleman.
Related terms Adjective

gent

  1. (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
    • 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
    • Her body gent and small.
Noun

gent (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for gentamicin#English|gentamicin.


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