Definitions for Pent

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Pent pent

Spelling: [pent]

IPA: /pɛnt/

Pent is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Pent (enpt).

Definitions for Pent

noun

1. penthouse (def 4).
2. any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance.
3. a detachable metal penpoint, filled by dipping or with a quill; nib.
4. such a penpoint with its penholder.
5. fountain pen.
6. ball-point pen.
7. the pen as the instrument of writing or authorship:
8. a person's style or quality of writing:
9. a writer:
10. the profession of writing:
11. Computers. stylus (def 3).
12. Ornithology. a quill. a pinfeather.
13. something resembling or suggesting a feather or quill.
14. Zoology. an internal, corneous or chitinous, feather-shaped structure in certain cephalopods, as the squid.
15. a small enclosure for domestic animals.
16. animals so enclosed:
17. an enclosure used for confinement or safekeeping:
18. playpen.
19. bull pen.
20. a dock having a protective concrete structure overhead, used to service and repair submarines.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of pen2 .

adjective

1. shut in; confined.

verb (used with object)

1. to write with or as with a pen; put down in writing:
2. to draw with or as with a pen:
3. to confine in or as in a pen.

Origin of Pent

past participle of late Middle English pend (now obsolete), variant of pen² (v.); cf. spend

Examples for Pent

What pent malice often is masked by smiling social courtesies!

She meant what she said, and her tears were real tears that had been pent up for weeks.

It was pent, it was dying of confinement, it was breathing with only a tithe of its tissue.

My whole soul was out in the bay, pent up with the men in the fort.

Their thoughts were all pent within the circle of this national conceit.

In the burst of merriment, his pent feelings found their vent.

We were pent up in the castle by the Danes till our provisions failed.

Enough demand remains “pent up,” Mulally said, that the end of Cash for Clunkers will not kill sales in the fourth quarter.

Perhaps so much so that he aroused whatever cruelty and anger and lunacy that Hernandez may have had pent up.

His friend's reply came with the pent promptitude of a gun going off.