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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

  • (..) Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,-That thing has a name?\N-Of course he h's got a name. He's mine. Dialogue: Marked=..,Default,NTP,!Effect,l bought him off an lrish feller l met down at the pub last year.\NThen l lent him to Dumbledore to guard the-- (..)
    2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone