name · noun · verb · 14 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US:dĕnt
UK, US:/dɛnt/
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rhymes with -ɛnt
CMU ARPABET:D EH1 N T
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
name
Meaning 1
A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD7086).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
A shallow deformation in the surface of an object, produced by an impact.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
The crash produced a dent in the left side of the car.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A minor effect made upon something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
to make a dent
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
noun
Meaning 5
A type of maize/corn with a relatively soft outer hull, and a soft type of starch that shrinks at maturity to leave an indentation in the surface of the kernel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
6
noun
Meaning 6
A sudden negative change, such as loss, damage, weakening, consumption or diminution, especially one produced by an external force, event or action
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal
Examples
That purchase put a bit of a dent in my wallet.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
7
noun
Meaning 7
A tooth, as of a card, a gear wheel, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: incision, scratch, prick, slit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: depression, impression, imprint
Narrower terms: score, scotch
14
verb
Meaning 14
make a depression into
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
The bicycle dented my car
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: indent
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flex, bend, deform, twist, turn
History
Etymology
From Middle English dent, dente, dint (“a blow; strike; dent”), from Old English dynt (“blow, strike, the mark or noise of a blow”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”). Akin to Old Norse dyntr (“dint”). Doublet of dint.
From French dent, from Latin dēns, dentis (“tooth”). Doublet of dens and tooth.
Across languages
Translations
94 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
вдлъбнатина
(vdlǎbnatina)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Bulgarian:
щърбел
(štǎrbel)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Catalan:
bony
— shallow deformation in the surface
Czech:
důlek
— shallow deformation in the surface
Czech:
promáčklina
— shallow deformation in the surface
Czech:
prohlubenina
— shallow deformation in the surface
Dhivehi:
ގޮނބި
(gombi)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Dutch:
deuk
— shallow deformation in the surface
Dutch:
bluts
— shallow deformation in the surface
Dutch:
buts
— shallow deformation in the surface
Finnish:
lommo
— shallow deformation in the surface
Finnish:
kolhu
— shallow deformation in the surface
French:
bosse
— shallow deformation in the surface
Galician:
crocada
— shallow deformation in the surface
Galician:
croca
— shallow deformation in the surface
Galician:
citra
— shallow deformation in the surface
Galician:
amolegadura
— shallow deformation in the surface
Georgian:
ფოსო
(poso)
— shallow deformation in the surface
German:
Delle
— shallow deformation in the surface
German:
Vertiefung
— shallow deformation in the surface
German:
Einbuchtung
— shallow deformation in the surface
German:
Beule
— shallow deformation in the surface
Greek:
κοίλωμα
(koíloma)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Greek:
βαθούλωμα
(vathoúloma)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Hebrew:
מַכָּה
— shallow deformation in the surface
Hungarian:
horpadás
— shallow deformation in the surface
Italian:
ammaccatura
— shallow deformation in the surface
Japanese:
凹み
(hekomi)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Jarai:
jĭt
— shallow deformation in the surface
Norwegian:
bulk
— shallow deformation in the surface
Norwegian:
bungel
— shallow deformation in the surface
Polish:
wgniecenie
— shallow deformation in the surface
Portuguese:
amassado
— shallow deformation in the surface
Portuguese:
amolgadela
— shallow deformation in the surface
Romanian:
teșitură
— shallow deformation in the surface
Russian:
вмя́тина
(vmjátina)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Serbo-Croatian:
uleknuće
— shallow deformation in the surface
Serbo-Croatian:
udubina
— shallow deformation in the surface
Serbo-Croatian:
udubljenje
— shallow deformation in the surface
Slovene:
vdrtina
— shallow deformation in the surface
Spanish:
abolladura
— shallow deformation in the surface
Spanish:
bolladura
— shallow deformation in the surface
Spanish:
abollón
— shallow deformation in the surface
Swedish:
buckla
— shallow deformation in the surface
Tagalog:
piing
— shallow deformation in the surface
Thai:
รอยบุ๋ม
— shallow deformation in the surface
Thai:
รอยบุบ
— shallow deformation in the surface
Turkish:
çökme
— shallow deformation in the surface
Turkish:
göçük
— shallow deformation in the surface
Turkish:
oyuk
— shallow deformation in the surface
Ottoman Turkish:
چوقور
(çukur)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Ukrainian:
я́мка
(jámka)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Ukrainian:
вм'я́тина
(vmʺjátyna)
— shallow deformation in the surface
Vietnamese:
vết lõm
— shallow deformation in the surface
Welsh:
tolc
— shallow deformation in the surface
Azerbaijani:
əzmək
— produce a dent
Bulgarian:
нащърбвам
(naštǎrbvam)
— produce a dent
