brent

plural brents

1. alternativeAlternative form of brant.

comparative more brent · superlative most brent

1. alternativeAlternative form of brant.

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of burnt.

   1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book XIV, Chapter vi, leaf 324v

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   / whan the fende felte hym soo charged / he shoke of syr Percyual / and he wente in to the water cryenge and roryng makyng grete sorowe / and it semed vnto hym that the water brente /

   When the fiend felt him so charged he shook off Sir Percivale, and he went into the water crying and roaring, making great sorrow, and it seemed unto him that the water brent.

plural Brents

1. countableuncountableA 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. countableuncountableA male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
3. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA housing estate in Polperro parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2150).
   2. countableuncountableA 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

   3. countableuncountableA London borough in Greater London, England, created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
   4. countableuncountableA community in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada, named after Brentwood, England.
   5. countableuncountableA city in Bibb County, Alabama.
   6. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Escambia County, Florida.
   7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia.
   8. countableuncountableA ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
   9. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.