gent

plural gents

1. colloquialA 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

comparative more gent · superlative most gent

1. obsoleteNoble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.

   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

2. obsoleteneat; pretty; elegant

   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

1. abbreviationclippingcolloquialuncountablemedicineClipping of gentamicin.

1. A surname.
2. alternativeAlternative form of Ghent, Belgium; from Dutch Gent.