Definition of "gent"

gent¹

/d͡ʒɛnt/

noun
plural gents
1. (colloquial) A gentleman.

gent²

/d͡ʒɛnt/

adjective
comparative more gent, superlative most gent
1. (obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
  Quotations
  He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent, / That him againe lou'd in the least degree […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. (obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant
  Quotations
  Her body gent and small.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Miller’s Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales; Charles Cowden Clarke, editor, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. […], 2nd edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: James Nichol; London: James Nisbet & Co.; Dublin: W. Robertson, 1860,

gent³

/d͡ʒɛnt/

noun
uncountable
1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for gentamicin.