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ents

ents is the plural of ent.

Meaning of ent

Noun

ent (plural ents)

  1. A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
    • […]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).2003, Walter Scheps, “The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings”, in Jared Lobdell, editor, A Tolkien Compass

See all 3 meanings of ent

Noun (1)

ents pl (plural only)

  1. (informal, plural, plural-only) entertainment
    • The student union ents officer eventually came to show us to the room we would be performing in, but there were two quite big problems. Firstly no one had bothered to advertise it to the student population so there was no audience[…]2012, Jason Manford, Brung Up Proper: My Autobiography, page 250

Noun (2) capitalized: ENTs

ENTs

  1. (plural) plural of ENT

Noun (3) capitalized: Ents

Ents

  1. (plural) plural of Ent

Questions about ents

What does ents mean?
Ents means entertainment.
What is ents the plural of?
Ents is the plural of ent.
What part of speech is ents?
Ents is a noun.

Words near ents in the dictionary

  1. entryway
  2. entryways
  3. entrywise
  4. entrée
  5. entrées
  6. ents
  7. Entscheidungsproblem
  8. Entsminger
  9. Entsmingers
  10. entsufon
  11. entubation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ents (page history and authors); ENTs (page history and authors); Ents (page history and authors); ent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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