lent

[ lent ]

/ lɛnt /

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verb

simple past tense and past participle of lend.

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OTHER WORDS FROM lent

un·lent, adjectivewell-lent, adjective

Other definitions for lent (2 of 3)

Lent

[ lent ]

/ lɛnt /

noun

(in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.

Origin of Lent

First recorded before 900; Middle English leynte, Old English læncte “spring, springtime, Lent,” literally, “lengthening (of daylight hours)”; cognate with Dutch lente(n), German Lenz “spring” (only English has the ecclesiastical sense); see origin at Lenten,long¹

OTHER WORDS FROM Lent

post-Lent, adjective

Other definitions for lent (3 of 3)

-lent

a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, variant of -ulent: pestilent.

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How to use lent in a sentence

Like Lent, the season of Advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden.
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Shortly thereafter, T.I. lent his first post-incarceration verse to a remix of “Magic.”
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In return we lent the hospitable Post our halftones, and they adorned its first city edition next morning.
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There seemed a sense that his blackness alone lent him a protean kind of wisdom, power, promise—hope, we might recall.
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Oleksiy Kosarev, leader of a local anti-corruption organization, lent some credence to this conception.
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Anselme, thus enjoined, lent an unwonted alacrity to his movements, waddling grotesquely like a hastening waterfowl.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
This stubborn resistance lent all the more lustre to the piety of our benignant Rulers.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614|Various
This misfortune gave another opportunity to his detractors, and again the Emperor lent his authority to their false accusations.
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He surveyed his man more closely; but the inspection lent no colour to his suspicions.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini

British Dictionary definitions for lent (1 of 2)

lent

/ (lɛnt) /

verb

the past tense and past participle of lend

British Dictionary definitions for lent (2 of 2)

Lent

/ (lɛnt) /

noun

Christianity the period of forty weekdays lasting from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, observed as a time of penance and fasting commemorating Jesus' fasting in the wilderness

(modifier) falling within or associated with the season before EasterLent observance

(plural) (at Cambridge University) Lent term boat races

Word Origin for Lent

Old English lencten, lengten spring, literally: lengthening (of hours of daylight)

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Cultural definitions for lent

Lent

In Christianity, a time of fasting and repentance in the spring, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending several weeks later on Easter.

notes for Lent

To “give something up for Lent” is to abandon a pleasurable habit as an act of devotion and self-discipline.

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