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Lent

Lent Meaning & Definition
Lent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lent?

[n] a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lent: Lententide

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lent: Advent | Allhallowmas | Allhallows | Allhallowtide | Annunciation | Annunciation Day | Ascension Day | Ash Wednesday | Candlemas | Candlemas Day | Carnival | Christmas | Corpus Christi | Easter | Easter Monday | Easter Saturday | Easter Sunday | Eastertide | Ember days | Epiphany | fast day | Good Friday | Halloween | Hallowmas | Holy Thursday | Holy Week | jour maigre | Lady Day | Lammas | Lammas Day | Lammastide | Lententide | Mardi Gras | Martinmas | Maundy Thursday | Michaelmas | Michaelmas Day | Michaelmastide | Ninth of Av | Palm Sunday | Pancake Day | Passion Week | Pentecost | Quadragesima | Quadragesima Sunday | Ramadan | Septuagesima | Shrove Tuesday | Trinity Sunday | Twelfth-day | Twelfth-tide | White Sunday | Whitmonday | Whitsun | Whitsunday | Whitsuntide | Whit-Tuesday | Whitweek | Yom Kippur

See Also | Ash Wednesday | church calendar | ecclesiastical calendar | Good Friday | season

Lent In Webster's Dictionary

\Lent\ (l[e^]nt), imp. & p. p. of {Lend}.
\Lent\, n. [OE. lente, lenten, leynte, AS. lengten, lencten, spring, lent, akin to D. lente, OHG. lenzin, langiz, G. lenz, and perh. fr. AS. lang long, E. long, because at this season of the year the days lengthen.] (Eccl.) 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. {Lent lily} (Bot.), the daffodil; -- so named from its blossoming in spring.
\Lent\, a. [L. lentus; akin to lenis soft, mild: cf. F. lent. See {Lenient}.] 1. Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. (Mus.) See {Lento}.

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