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ENT¹
noun ENTs
- Initialism of ear, nose and throat.
- An otorhinolaryngologist; a physician who treats the ear, nose, and throat.
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Initialism of extreme nuclear transient
Similar: extreme nuclear transient
ent²
- /ɛnt/
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Old English ent (“giant”), from Proto-West Germanic *anti; introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55, as Ent.
Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently did not survive through the Middle English period into Modern times.
Apparently survived in some German dialects as Enz (“giant”), also in composite forms. Compare ettin.
noun ents · Ent
- A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien. […]and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English).
ent³
- /ɛnt/
Rhymes with -ɛnt
Where it comes from
Possibly from empty, through assimilation of /m/ to the following /t/.
verb ents · enting · ented
- To pour, especially of rain. "[…] ent me out some beer, / Fill up my glass to quinch my thust, Weth bitter like thee'st gove me fust."
Ent⁴
noun Ents
- Alternative letter-case form of ent The strange words and names that the Hobbits record as used by Treebeard and other Ents are thus Elvish, or fragments of Elf-speech strung together in Ent-fashion.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: tna, vrs, rsv, pension, norsk, orl, urs, ent doctor, otolaryngologist, otorhinolaryngologist, ent specialist, ent physician, otiatry, external ear, endo, auditory tube
Translations
Talk about this word "ent." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ent. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. ent. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ent "ent." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ent.Cite this
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title = {ent},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ent},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
