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lent

Definition

  • noun: a period of 40 days before Easter during which many Christians do not eat certain foods or do certain pleasurable activities as a way of remembering the suffering of Jesus Christ
  • noun: the 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter observed by the Roman Catholic, Eastern, and some Protestant churches as a period of penitence and fasting
  • past tense and past participle of 'lend'
  • synonyms: slow, mild, gentle

Examples

  • I 'lent' our ladder to the neighbors.

  • the 'Lenten' season

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) As for the tots, they're twits. How's your skin, son? I like my aides to be presentable. Well, I... I've had a few zits. But my roommate, he lent me his Clinique because he's from Chestnut Hill and he's got... "The History of My Skin," by Charles Simms. You patronizing me, peewee? Hmm? (..)
    1992 Scent of a Woman