ent-pref. Variant of ento-.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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ENTabbr. Medicine ear, nose, and throatAmerican Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.ENT abbreviation for (Medicine) ear, nose, and throat Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014ENT ear, nose, and throat. -ent a suffix, equivalent to -ant, appearing in nouns and adjectives of Latin origin: accident; different. [
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-entsuff.1. a. Performing, promoting, or causing a specified action: absorbent.b. Being in a specified state or condition: bivalent.2. One that performs, promotes, or causes a specified action: referent.[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -?ns, -ent-, present participle suff.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.-ent suffix forming adjectives, suffix forming nounscausing or performing an action or existing in a certain condition; the agent that performs an action: astringent; dependent. [from Latin -ent-, -ens, present participial ending]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014ENT ear, nose, and throat. -ent a suffix, equivalent to -ant, appearing in nouns and adjectives of Latin origin: accident; different. [