Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Short for gentleman.
He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent.1978, “Werewolves of London”, in Warren Zevon, LeRoy Marinell and Waddy Wachtel (music), Excitable Boy, performed by Warren Zevon:
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From Middle English gent, from Old French gent, ultimately from Latin genitum (“born”).
He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent, / That him againe lou'd in the least degree […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Her body gent and small.1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Miller’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860, →OCLC:
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| more gent | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most gent | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |