Kent

(kĕnt)

(kĕnt)

1. A region and former kingdom of southeast England. Settled by Jutes in the fifth century A.D., it became one of the seven kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy but was later eclipsed by the kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex.
2. A city of northeast Ohio east-northeast of Akron. Kent State University (founded 1910) is in the city and was the site of a 1970 demonstration against the Vietnam War in which four students were killed by members of the National Guard. Population: 27,900.
3. A city of west-central Washington south of Seattle. A newly urbanized community in a former farming region, it is a food-processing center with an aerospace industry. Population: 83,500.

, Rockwell 1882-1971.