Trent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹɛnt/
- Rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology
- From Welsh tros (over) + hynt (way), often taken to mean "the trespasser"
- Another possibility: a shortening of "Tranent", or "Tranant" in Scottish Gaelic, a geographical location in East Lothian. "Tranant" itself is possibly of Brythonic origin.
Proper noun
Trent
- (less common form) Trento, the city in Italy.
- A river that rises in Staffordshire and flows to join the Ouse and form the Humber estuary.
- An English and Scottish topographic surname for someone who lived near any of the rivers of that name.
- A male given name derived from the surname.
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