What does pent mean?
Definitions for pent
pɛntpent
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Princeton's WordNet
pent, shut up(p)adjective
closely confined
Wiktionary
pentverb
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pentadjective
Confined in a pen, imprisoned.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Pentpart. pass. of pen.
Shut up.
Cut my lace asunder,
That my pent heart may have some scope to beat. William Shakespeare.The son of Clarence have I pent up close. William Shakespeare.
Pent to linger
But with a grain a day, I would not buy
Their mercy. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.Their armour help’d their harm, crush’d in, and bruis’d
Into their substance pent. John Milton.The soul pure fire, like ours, of equal force;
But pent in flesh, must issue by discourse. Dryden.Pent up in Utica he vainly forms
A poor epitome of Roman greatness. Joseph Addison, Cato.
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pent
1) A word prefix derived from Greek, meaning five. 2) Short for pentagon or pentagram, which are five-sided shapes. 3) In a more colloquial sense, it can also mean contained or held back, often used in the phrase "pent-up," referring to emotions or energy.
Webster Dictionary
Pent
of Pen
Pentverb
penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up
Etymology: [From Pen, v. t.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Pent
pa.t. and pa.p. of pen, to shut up.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
PENT
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pent is ranked #68122 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Pent surname appeared 289 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pent.
86.5% or 250 total occurrences were White.
7.2% or 21 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
4.5% or 13 total occurrences were Black.
Anagrams for pent »
PETN
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pent in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of pent in a Sentence
While we welcome enthusiastic fan engagement, we regret that a moment of high elation and pent-up emotion by spectators on the 18th hole... briefly overwhelmed security and made two players and their caddies feel vulnerable, we always put player safety at the top of our list and are grateful that order was restored.
What we've seen is there was even maybe more pent-up demand than we anticipated.
There was pent-up demand for change in flavor and alcohol content among South Korean drinkers, especially among females as more and more of them join the workforce.
I've got 10 straight months of data saying that people are ready to travel in six months. It keeps saying the same thing, what I do believe is that once people are comfortable, it will come back relatively quickly. There is huge pent-up demand to travel. We hear it everywhere we go. But no one is going to travel until there are things to do when you travel, and until the vaccine is distributed and the pandemic is largely eradicated.
The U.S. housing market will continue to expand this year, perhaps at a little slower rate than recently as some of the pent up demand has been exhausted, but overall it should be a fairly good year.
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