Kent
English
Etymology
From Old English Cent, from Latin Cantium, from Brythonic *Cantio (compare Old Irish céite (“gathering, folkmoot, hillock”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛnt/
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Proper noun
Kent
- A maritime county in the southeast of England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.
- A river in Cumbria, England, which flows into Morecambe Bay at Arnside.
- A town in Connecticut
- an unincorporated census-designated place in Republican Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, USA
- A census-designated place in Iowa
- A city in Minnesota
- A town in New York
- A city in Ohio
- A city in Washington, USA
- A surname derived from the place name.
- A male given name transferred from the surname; of mostly American usage, but never popular.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- Fort Kent
- Kent Acres
- Kent City
- Kent County
- Kent Island
- Kentland
- Kent Narrows
- Kent Peninsula
- Kentville
- New Kent
- New Kent County
- South Kent
Translations
the English maritime county
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Catalan
Danish
Norwegian
Proper noun
Kent
- A male given name borrowed from English and interpreted as a short form of Kenneth.
Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English Kent at the same time as Kenneth. Generally interpreted as a short form of Kenneth in Scandinavia. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1923.
References
- Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
- Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 31 771 males with the given name Kent living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1950s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
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