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I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
Peter Capaldi

Meaning of "Kentish" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF KENTISH

Kentish  [ˈkɛntɪʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KENTISH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kentish can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES KENTISH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Kentish

Kentish may be used as a name: ▪ Kentish Council is a local government area in Tasmania, Australia ▪ Kentish Town is an area of north west London, England Kentish may also be an adjective for things relating to the western part of the English county of Kent or the former Kingdom of Kent: ▪ Kentish dialect, the dialect of Modern English spoken in Kent ▪ Kentish dialect, a dialect of Old English ▪ Kentish Man or Maid...

Definition of Kentish in the English dictionary

The definition of Kentish in the dictionary is of or relating to Kent.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KENTISH


bluntish
ˈblʌntɪʃ
British
ˈbrɪtɪʃ
brutish
ˈbruːtɪʃ
cultish
ˈkʌltɪʃ
dilettantish
ˌdɪləˈtæntɪʃ
faintish
ˈfeɪntɪʃ
fetich
ˈfetɪʃ
fetish
ˈfɛtɪʃ
lightish
ˈlaɪtɪʃ
pettish
ˈpɛtɪʃ
Pictish
ˈpɪktɪʃ
runtish
ˈrʌntɪʃ
saintish
ˈseɪntɪʃ
saltish
ˈsɔːltɪʃ
Scottish
ˈskɒtɪʃ
skittish
ˈskɪtɪʃ
sluttish
ˈslʌtɪʃ
sweetish
ˈswiːtɪʃ
sycophantish
ˈsɪkəfæntɪʃ
whitish
ˈwaɪtɪʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KENTISH

Kensington and Chelsea
Kensington Palace
kenspeck
kenspeckle
kent
kente
kente cloth
kentia
Kentish glory
Kentish plover
kentledge
Kentuckian
Kentucky
Kentucky bluegrass
Kentucky coffee tree
Kentucky Derby
Kenwood House
Kenya
Kenyan
Kenyatta

WORDS THAT END LIKE KENTISH

anti-British
cattish
coltish
coquettish
doltish
flattish
goatish
Irtish
latish
leftish
Lettish
loutish
Midianitish
ooftish
pro-British
ruttish
smartish
softish
sottish
the Scottish

Synonyms and antonyms of Kentish in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Kentish» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KENTISH

Find out the translation of Kentish to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Kentish from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Kentish» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

肯特
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Kentish
570 millions of speakers

English

Kentish
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

केंट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

array(كنتيش)
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Кентиш
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Kentish
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ইংলণ্ডের কেন্র্ট্প্রদেশীয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Kentish
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kentish
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kentish
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ケントの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

켄트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kentish
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Kentish
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கெண்டில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केंटिश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kentish
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

del Kent
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kentish
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Кентіш
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Kentish
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Kentish
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Kentish
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Kentish
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Kentish
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Kentish

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KENTISH»

The term «Kentish» is regularly used and occupies the 57.022 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of Kentish
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Kentish».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KENTISH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Kentish» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Kentish» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Kentish

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2 QUOTES WITH «KENTISH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Kentish.
1
Peter Capaldi
I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
2
Diana Quick
I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it took an hour off the journey to my house in Suffolk. It has a villagey feel, and it's still a very mixed community, which I like.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KENTISH»

Discover the use of Kentish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Kentish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Kentish Lad
Frank Muir recalls, in glorious detail, a happy 1920s childhood in the seaside town of Ramsgate, where he was born in his grandmother's pub in Broadstairs, and in London, where he attended an inexpensive but excellent school of a kind no ...
Frank Muir, 2012
2
Essays in Kentish History Cb: Essays Kentish History
First published in 1976. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Margaret Roake, 2013
3
A bibliography of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
A Bibliography Of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Documents The Remarkably Productive Career Of One Of The Great Minds Of The Twentieth Century.
James S. Crouch, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2002
4
Private Memoirs of a Kentish Headmistress
Graceful young heiress Miss Abigail Swift founds a new academy to instil discipline into Kentish maidens.
Yolanda Celbridge, 2010
5
A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in ...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
William Douglas Parish, 2009
6
Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art
Nine of the most famous essays by the preeminent philosopher and art historian, exploring such subjects as the true function of aesthetics in art and the importance of symbolism.
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, 1943
7
From Old English to Standard English: A Course Book in ...
The l4th century - Southern and Kentish dialects 9.l The dialect areas of Middle English There were four main dialect areas of Old English—West Saxon, Kentish, Mercian and Northumbrian (see section 3.2). In Middle English, they remain ...
Dennis Freeborn, 1998
8
Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: ...
before /l/ + consonant was the input to IU which resulted in [e] in Kentish. "It seems that Old English Kentish has a 'West Saxon' input to /-Umlaut ... but then an 'Anglian' output for /-Umlaut of this 'West Saxon' phonological form": that is, [e] for ...
Philip Carr, Jacques Durand, Colin J. Ewen, 2005
9
Selected letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
No other source reveals the author's erudition, as well as facets of his life and thought, as completely and delightfully as this collection.
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Alvin Moore, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, 1988
10
Harbledown, a Kentish Village, Sketched in Pen & Ink
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
O'Neill S, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KENTISH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Kentish is used in the context of the following news items.
1
No wedding ring and no hubby on stage - Imelda's independence …
In her song Kentish Town Waltz, Imelda poignantly describes how they lived on "stews that lasted three days into four" while "those dreadful ... «Irish Independent, Jul 15»
2
Anyone for an al fresco lavender massage? - Telegraph
Our distillery is getting prepared to welcome its first trailer of Kentish Lavender crop to distill this week. pic.twitter.com/7tYOsYBqgr. — The Hop ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
The end of capitalism has begun | Books | The Guardian
The scene is Kentish Town, London, February 1858, sometime around 4am. Marx is a wanted man in Germany and is hard at work scribbling ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Canterbury's Tannery flats destroyed by fire to be rebuilt using wood …
The appeal was set up by the Kentish Gazette in the wake of the fire, which ripped through the building on July 4. Among those left homeless ... «Kent Online, Jul 15»
5
Comment: Will Camden's radical past inspire the next wave of …
Initiatives like Kentish Town City Farm and the Weekend Arts College sprang up alongside the artistic or theatrical but always counter-cultural ... «Ham&High, Jul 15»
6
Saint Lucia Ramps up Energy Transition | News | teleSUR English
Saint Lucia Energy Caribbean Politics Environment. by Kentish Alison. teleSUR. Newsletter. Get our newsletter delivered directly to your inbox. «teleSUR English, Jul 15»
7
9 Kentish school dinners we will NEVER forget
Whether you went to school in the 1950s or 1970s, school dinners have remained a special part of our childhood memories. From the school ... «Canterbury Times, Jul 15»
8
Town Hall set to rule on six-storey block planned for Kentish Town …
TWO influential conservation area advisory committees are urging the Town Hall to throw out a plan for a long-empty strip of land on the ... «Camden New Journal newspapers website, Jul 15»
9
Council jobs mystery
I almost shed a tear over Sean Ford's story on Latrobe/Kentish workforce turnover (Adv., July 8). Unfortunately Kentish Council have only 13 ... «The Advocate, Jul 15»
10
Kentish Flats wind farm extension continues off the coast of Whitstable
As the cloud finally clears about five miles off the coast of Whitstable, a 440ft wind turbine slowly begins to rotate. “When the water is flat and ... «Kent Online, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Kentish [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/kentish>. Apr 2024 ».
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