Usage of "gent" | TermGallery

portuguès

espanyol

A boy or man.

portuguès

Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry.

Usage of gent in anglès

He said the gent in the Benbow was a most harbitrary gent. 
 The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family 

The old gent knew all about the corner and how I won. 
 Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi 

I should like to see you a Parliament gent; I should indeed. 
 Can You Forgive Her? 

Here it is;-PhineasFinn;-andeverybody knows you, because you're a Parliament gent. 
 Phineas Finn / The Irish Member 

And I hear her and the gent laughing, coming up the stairs. 
 The sherlockian 

The first thing she saw was the foreign gent staggering toward her. 
 A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day 

And behold, at this moment the reverend gent enters from the vestry. 
 The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family 

Aw, Mike, I seen that gent in the barroom the other day. 
 Way of the Lawless 

I was tailing a gent who was playing games off the reservation. 
 Stop Look and Dig 

But I'm sure obliged to the gent that give me the sendoff. 
 The Rangeland Avenger 

England, it seemed, didn't show sufficient respect to the officer and gent. 
 Eyeless in Gaza 

That Gipsy gent, Fawe, pulled the lever, but Marchand built the scaffold. 
 The World for Sale, Volume 3. 

Tell me what a great gent I was quick as a flash. 
 Black Jack 

I know a gent that's in love with you this very minute. 
 For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store 

We were nearly halfway through when another gent wandered into the office. 
 The President's Assassin 

I always think that's the best way to spot a real gent. 
 Babbitt 

gent

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portuguès

espanyol

Gent through the time

Gent across language varieties

United Kingdom

Common

United States of America

Less common

Meanings of gent in anglès