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brent
/bɹɛnt/
name 5noun 1adj 1verb 1
Collocations
3VERB + BRENT
approached, go
BRENT + NOUN
american, broker, maryland
PREP.
in
Definitions
name
1
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.
2
A male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
3
A placename:
4
A placename:
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.
5
A placename:
noun
1
Alternative form of brant.
adj
1
Alternative form of brant.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southwa
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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
Wiktionary02
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.
Wiktionary03
1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book XIV, Chapter vi, leaf 324v
Wiktionary04
/ 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 /
Wiktionary05
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.
Wiktionary06
Brent is an American, but he speaks Japanese as if it were his mother tongue.
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