/bɹɛnt/
OriginEnglish surname from placenames in Devon and Somerset, from Old English brant (“steep”), referring to hills. Compare Brents.
- countable, uncountableA 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 h”
- countable, uncountableA male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
- countable, uncountableA housing estate in Polperro parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2150).
- countable, uncountableA 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.”
- countable, uncountableA London borough in Greater London, England, created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
- countable, uncountableA community in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada, named after Brentwood, England.
- countable, uncountableA city in Bibb County, Alabama.
- countable, uncountableA census-designated place in Escambia County, Florida.
- countable, uncountableAn unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia.
- countable, uncountableA ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
- countable, uncountableA census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.
FormsBrents(plural)