ENT Definition
ent
abbreviation
Ear, nose, and throat.
Webster's New World
(medicine) Ear, nose and throat.
Wiktionary
suffix
Performing, promoting, or causing a specified action.
Absorbent.
American Heritage
Being in a specified state or condition.
Bivalent.
American Heritage
One that performs, promotes, or causes a specified action.
Referent.
American Heritage
affix
Webster's New World
That has, shows, or does.
Insistent.
Webster's New World
A person or thing that.
Superintendent, solvent.
Webster's New World
noun
(fantasy) A fictional large talking tree.
Wiktionary
verb
(dialect, UK, Devon) To empty or pour.
Wiktionary
Origin of ENT
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Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings, 1954–55, from Old English ent (“giant”), from Proto-Germanic *antiz.
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French from Latin -ēns -ent- present participle suff
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Possibly from empty, through assimilation of the "m" to the following "t"
From Wiktionary
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