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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

  • (..) Anyway, rather impetuous of that boy, but you're to experienced to react rashly, which is why the lady for whom you work lent you that necklace. Pearls, diamonds, flawless rubies. Hardly the gems of a governess . However, the jewls you are not wearing, tell us rather more. - Holmes! (..)
    2009 Sherlock Holmes