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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

  • (..) - Let's just wait a little longer. - Look, you want to walk the streets of Paris, and take it in by night, that's fine. You go ahead. But I'm in the middle of a great book that Carol lent me. Come on, just more minutes, and then we can walk home. If I'm asleep when you get in, don't wake me up. (..)
    2011 Midnight in Paris