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