ent
/ɛnt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.32 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
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3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To pour, especially of rain.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of ent.
Example Sentences
- "[…]and that fine young ent Quickbeam is merely a minor crux in an Old English glossary (the name Quickbeam means 'living tree' in Old English)."
- "But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents."
- "Somewhere, ents and manitous laugh grimly For, despite all this, the trees lasted much longer Than most of the presents, and all of the holiday spirit."
- "Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent."
- "In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents."
- ""[…] ent me out some beer, / Fill up my glass to quinch my thust, Weth bitter like thee'st gove me fust.""
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Old English ent (“giant”), from Proto-West Germanic *anti; introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55, as Ent. Compare Middle English *ent, eont (“giant”), inherited from the Old English word, but which apparently did not survive through the Middle English period into Modern times. Apparently survived in some German dialects as Enz (“giant”), also in composite forms. Compare ettin.
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extreme nuclear transient