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発音

• IPA: /d͡ʒɛnt/
• 韻: -ɛnt
• Homophone: djent

語源 1

Short for gentleman.

名詞

gent (plural gents)

1. (colloquial) A gentleman.
   • 1978, “Werewolves of London”, in Warren Zevon, LeRoy Marinell and Waddy Wachtel (music), Excitable Boy, performed by Warren Zevon:

     He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent.

派生語

• city gent
• ladies and gents

関連する語

• genteel
• gentile
• gentle

語源 2

From 中期英語 gent, from Old French gent, ultimately from Latin genitum (“born”).

形容詞

gent (comparative more gent, superlative most gent)

1. (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent, / That him againe lou'd in the least degree […]

2. (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Miller’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, →OCLC:

     Her body gent and small.

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語源 3

名詞

gent (uncountable)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of gentamicin.

アナグラム

• Teng