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Definition of brent in English English dictionary: A habitational surname; A male given name transferred from the surname, taken to regular use in the 20th century; first used in the twentieth century; English-born colonist and feminist. She immigrated to Maryland in 1638 and was the first woman to obtain a land grant there. Variant of brant; small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward; Burnt; A brant; Smooth; unwrinkled; {i} type of small goose; Steep; high
brent geese: plural form of brent goose
brent goose: A small member of the goose family (Anatidae), Branta bernicla
Margaret Brent: born 1600, Gloucestershire, Eng. died 1669/71, Westmoreland county, Va. British colonial landowner in North America. She arrived in Maryland in 1638 and obtained a patent for 70 acres, becoming the first woman in the colony to hold land in her own right. By 1657 she was among the colony's largest landowners. In a border dispute with Virginia in 1646, she organized a group of armed volunteers to support the Maryland colony's governor, Leonard Calvert. On his death in 1647, she became executor of his estate and settled a dispute over back pay for his soldiers that had nearly led to civil war

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/ˈbrent/ /ˈbrɛnt/

[ 'brent- ] (noun.) 1570. From place names in Devon and Somerset, Celtic or Old English "hill".

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