Definitions for Kent

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Kent Kent

Spelling: [kent]

IPA: /kɛnt/

Kent is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in Kent (eknt).

Definitions for Kent

noun

1. James, 1763–1847, U.S. jurist.
2. Rockwell [rok-wel,, -wuh l] /ˈrɒkˌwɛl,, -wəl/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. illustrator and painter.
3. William, 1685–1748, English painter, architect, and landscape gardener.
4. a county in SE England. 1442 sq. mi. (3735 sq. km).
5. an ancient English kingdom in SE Great Britain.
6. a city in NE Ohio.
7. a town in central Washington.
8. a male given name: from the Old English name of a county in England.
9. knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception:
10. range of sight or vision.

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly Scot. to know, have knowledge of or about, or be acquainted with (a person or thing). to understand or perceive (an idea or situation).
2. Scots Law. to acknowledge as heir; recognize by a judicial act.
3. Archaic. to see; descry; recognize.
4. British Dialect Archaic. to declare, acknowledge, or confess (something). to teach, direct, or guide (someone).

verb (used without object)

1. British Dialect. to have knowledge of something. to understand.

Origin of Kent

before 900; Middle English kennen to make known, see, know, Old English cennan to make known, declare; cognate with Old Norse kenna, German kennen; akin to can¹

Examples for Kent

Following her upbringing at Chartwell, the Churchill family home in Kent, Mary Soames, according to Emma Soames, had “a good war.”

He means to send for his horses immediately, and it is impossible to say when you may see him in Kent.

Three ladies were from Detroit, and one from Kent, in England.

If ye had Kent my Alick, ye wadna wonder at me for what I did.

Kent herself has said the movie is about parenting, the unsayable extremes of what mothers can feel.

“It's the ultimate reward that's really long-lasting,” Kent says.

Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent are the most rich in this respect.

Comments like these are precisely the reason Kent finds, and I suspect we all find, storytelling to be invaluable.

The last volume, Kent, 1907, is entirely decorated by himself.

But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.