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1. Informal abbreviation of 'gentleman'
    
2. A boy or man
   "that gent is your host"
   - chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, blighter, cuss, bloke [Brit], boyo [UK, Ireland], bucko

1. Port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial centre; famous for cloth industry
   - Gand, Ghent

Derived forms: gents

Type of: city, gentleman, male, male person, metropolis, port, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: Belgique, Belgium, Kingdom of Belgium

Encyclopedia: Gent Gent, Belgium