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Meanings of gent in English

Portuguese
homem
Spanish
tipo

A boy or man.

      homem
      Portuguese
      gante

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

            gante
            Usage of gent in English
            1
            He said the gent in the Benbow was a most harbitrary gent.
            The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
            2
            The old gent knew all about the corner and how I won.
            Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi
            3
            I should like to see you a Parliament gent; I should indeed.
            Can You Forgive Her?
            4
            Here it is;-PhineasFinn;-andeverybody knows you, because you're a Parliament gent.
            Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
            5
            And I hear her and the gent laughing, coming up the stairs.
            The sherlockian
            6
            The first thing she saw was the foreign gent staggering toward her.
            A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day
            7
            And behold, at this moment the reverend gent enters from the vestry.
            The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
            8
            Aw, Mike, I seen that gent in the barroom the other day.
            Way of the Lawless
            9
            I was tailing a gent who was playing games off the reservation.
            Stop Look and Dig
            10
            But I'm sure obliged to the gent that give me the sendoff.
            The Rangeland Avenger
            11
            England, it seemed, didn't show sufficient respect to the officer and gent.
            Eyeless in Gaza
            12
            That Gipsy gent, Fawe, pulled the lever, but Marchand built the scaffold.
            The World for Sale, Volume 3.
            13
            Tell me what a great gent I was quick as a flash.
            Black Jack
            14
            I know a gent that's in love with you this very minute.
            For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store
            15
            We were nearly halfway through when another gent wandered into the office.
            The President's Assassin
            16
            I always think that's the best way to spot a real gent.
            Babbitt
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            Translations for gent
            Spanish
            tipotío
            Gent through the time
            Gent across language varieties
            United Kingdom
            Common
            United States of America
            Less common