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Brent¹

  • /bɹɛnt/

Rhymes with -ɛnt

Where it comes from

English surname from placenames in Devon and Somerset, from Old English brant (“steep”), referring to hills. Compare Brents.

proper noun Brents

  1. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English. Liz Brent, broker at Go Brent in Maryland and Washington, DC, said she’s spent the past few months changing how she presents properties by emphasizing photographs, 3-D tours, and video vignettes for homes online.
  2. countable, uncountable A male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
  3. countable, uncountable A housing estate in Polperro parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2150).
  4. countable, uncountable A small river in Greater London, England, which joins the Thames at Brentford. Only by the wet flapping of a barnacle goose did she know she now approached the River Brent, obscured as it was by a brickworks and yet more houses.
  5. countable, uncountable A London borough in Greater London, England, created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
  6. countable, uncountable A community in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada, named after Brentwood, England.
  7. countable, uncountable A city in Bibb County, Alabama.
  8. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Escambia County, Florida.
  9. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia.
  10. countable, uncountable A ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
  11. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.

brent²

Rhymes with -ɛnt

noun brents

  1. alternative Alternative form of brant

adjective more brent · most brent

  1. alternative Alternative form of brant

verb

  1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of burnt 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book XIV, Chapter vi, leaf 324v

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: brent goose, brant goose, brant, burnett, dyer, geese, charred, scorched, singed, seared, burnt, burned, baked, parched, roasted, crisped

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@misc{brent_2026,
  title = {brent},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brent},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}