brent

Proper noun capitalized: Brent

Brent (countable and uncountable, plural Brents)

1. A habitational surname from Old English.
   • Liz Brent, broker at Go Brent in Maryland and Washington, DC, said she’s spent the past few months changing how she presents properties by emphasizing photographs, 3-D tours, and video vignettes for homes online.2020 June 12, Anna Bahney, “The new rules of buying and selling a house in a coronavirus world”, in CNN Business
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of 20th century and later usage.
3. A housing estate in Polperro parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX2150).
4. A small river in Greater London, England, which joins the Thames at Brentford.
   • 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.2023, Zadie Smith, The Fraud, Hamish Hamilton, page 189
5. A London borough in Greater London, England, created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
6. A community in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada, named after Brentwood, England.
7. A city in Bibb County, Alabama.
8. A census-designated place in Escambia County, Florida.
9. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Georgia.
10. A ghost town in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
11. A census-designated place in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.