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Meaning of ENT | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ɛnt

Definitions

  1. Initialism of ear, nose and throat.
  2. A large, fictional, humanoid, walking tree in works by J. R. R. Tolkien.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of ent.
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  4. An otorhinolaryngologist; an ear, nose and throat doctor.

Equivalents

Bosanski ORL
Čeština ORL
Ελληνικά ΩΡΛ
Español ORL
Français ORL
Hrvatski ORL
Bahasa Indonesia THT
Italiano ORL
Русский ЛОР энт
Српски ORL
Türkçe KBB
Українська лор

Examples

“[…]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).”
“But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.”
“Somewhere, ents and manitous laugh grimly For, despite all this, the trees lasted much longer Than most of the presents, and all of the holiday spirit.”
“Hello, my good friend, myself I present. Not human, nor tree, for I am an ent.”
“In The Lords of the Rings there are dark forces in the forest—the Huorn. Huorn are ents who have become more treeish, gone rogue. They can still move and speak, but only with the ents.”
“The strange words and names that the Hobbits record as used by Treebeard and other Ents are thus Elvish, or fragments of Elf-speech strung together in Ent-fashion.”
“Ents and Entwives, Jack thought crazily. BAD Ents and Entwives.”
“Tolkien's Treebeard, his Ent creation, was inspired by Lewis, especially his sometimes emphatic deep voice”
“Tolkien perhaps speaks for himself when he has Treebeard confess that "nobody cares for the woods as I care for them," and when this same Ent also warns that "the withering of all woods may be drawing near"”
“The Ents are a race of giant, tree-like people. Their purpose is to protect the electrons, though some align themselves with holes. However, as the great arrays have grown, the number of Ents has dwindled. Now they are said only to be found in the darkest and most mysterious of laboratories.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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