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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Gent" is a part of...):
Belgique; Belgium; Kingdom of Belgium (a monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A boy or man
Example:
he's a good bloke
Synonyms:
blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gent" is a kind of...):
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gent"):
dog (informal term for a man)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Informal abbreviation of 'gentleman'
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("gent" is a kind of...):
gentleman (a man of refinement)
Context examples:
If you two gent'lmen, gent'lmen growed, said Mr. Peggotty, don't ex-cuse me for being in a state of mind, when you understand matters, I'll arks your pardon.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There ain't a gent'lman in all the land—nor yet sailing upon all the sea—that can love his lady more than I love her, though there's many a common man—would say better—what he meant.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
