Brent

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English

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The river Brent at Hanwell in London

Etymology

English surname from placenames in Devon and Somerset, from Old English brant (“steep”), referring to hills. Compare Brents.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Brent (countable and uncountable, plural Brents)

  1. A habitational surname from Old English.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
  3. A placename
    1. A small river in Greater London, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Thames at Brentford.
      • 2023, Zadie Smith, The Fraud, Hamish Hamilton, page 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.
    2. A London borough in Greater London, England, United Kingdom, created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.

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