KENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kent mean? 

• KENT (noun)
  The noun KENT has 2 senses:

1. a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans

2. United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971)

  Familiarity information: KENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)

Meronyms (parts of "Kent"):

Canterbury (a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church)

Holonyms ("Kent" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Holonyms ("Kent" is a member of...):

Home Counties (the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Kent; Rockwell Kent

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

 Context examples 

The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It’s down in Kent, seven miles from Chatham and three from the railway line.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I doubt if I should have had any, though there had been a Swiss snow-drift in the Kent Road.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

May good St. Thomas of Kent grant that it may be long before either I or mine need his help!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You'll find their footmarks all over the Hastings sands, in Kent, and in Sussex.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One could not walk the Kent coast without seeing the beacons heaped up to tell the country of the enemy’s landing, and if the sun were shining on the uplands near Boulogne, one might catch the flash of its gleam upon the bayonets of manoeuvring veterans.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As a part of their research to understand the evolution of the human brain and how it differs from those of other primates, scientists from Kent State University discovered proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease — believed to be unique to humans — in a sample of brains of aged chimpanzees.

(New research detects Alzheimer's disease markers in nonhuman primates, National Science Foundation)

Till I was in Kent, and saw so much both of Mr. Darcy and his relation Colonel Fitzwilliam, I was ignorant of the truth myself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Exactly—one of the richest men in Kent—Lady Brackenstall is in the morning-room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)