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Brent
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brent
English
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thumb|The river Brent at Hanwell in London
Etymology
English surname from placenames in Devon and Somerset, from en ang brant steep, referring to hills. Compare en Brents.
Pronunciation
en /bɹɛnt/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Brent.wav Southern England
en ɛnt 1
Proper noun
~ s
en habitational Old English.
en Anna Bahney The new rules of buying and selling a house in a coronavirus world w:CNN Business https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/success/real-estate-home-buying-and-selling-coronavirus 2020-06-12 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251116021750/https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/success/real-estate-home-buying-and-selling-coronavirus 16 November 2025
en male surnames 20th century and later.
A placename:
en housing estate in par/Polperro co/Cornwall cc/England OS grid ref SX2150.
en small river co/Greater London cc/England, which joins the Thames at Brentford.
en 2023 w:Zadie Smith w:The Fraud Hamish Hamilton 189 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.
en London borough in co/Greater London cc/England created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
en comm in dist/Nipissing District p/Ontario c/Canada, named after Brentwood, England.
en place c/USA:
en city co/Bibb County s/Alabama.
en CDP co/Escambia County s/Florida.
en ucomm co/Monroe County s/Georgia.
en ghost town co/Pemiscot County s/Missouri.
en CDP co/Sequoyah County s/Oklahoma.
Derived terms
en Brent Cross Brentford Brentham Brentism Brent Knoll East Brent South Brent