Lent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Past tense and past participle of lend.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of lend.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • imp. & p. p. of lend.
  • n. A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.
  • adj. Slow; mild; gentle.
  • adj. See Lento.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An annual fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed from very early times in the Christian church, in commemoration of Christ's forty days' fast (Mat. iv. 2), and as a season of special penitence and preparation for the Easter feast.
  • n. Preterit and past participle of lend.
  • Slow; gentle; mild.
  • In music, same as lento.
  • n. A suffix in some adjectives of Latin origin, as flatulent, pestilent, pulverulent, turbulent, vinolent, violent, virulent, etc. It is not used in new English formations.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    season   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    lend    lento   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    slow    mild    gentle    quadragesima   
    Verb Stem
    lend   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bendt    Brent    Gent    Ghent    Kent    Tashkent    Trent    accent    ascent    assent