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Brent en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /bɹɛnt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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. 2020 June 12, Anna Bahney, “The new rules of buying and selling a house in a coronavirus world”, in CNN Business:
  2. (countable, uncountable) A male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
  3. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A housing estate in Polperro parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2150).
  4. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ 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. 2023, Zadie Smith, The Fraud, Hamish Hamilton, page 189:
  5. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A London borough in Greater London, England, created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
  6. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A community in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada, named after Brentwood, England.
  7. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A place in the United States: ▸ A city in Bibb County, Alabama.
  8. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A place in the United States: ▸ A census-designated place in Escambia County, Florida.
  9. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A place in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia.
  10. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A place in the United States: ▸ A ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
  11. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A place in the United States: ▸ A census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.

Forms

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Brents Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Brent Cross · East Brent · Brentford · Brent Knoll · Brentism · South Brent · Brentham