lent

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see also: Lent

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɛnt/

Noun

lent

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of lend

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Lent

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Etymology 1

Shortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn, as in a season into which days lengthen as it progresses.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɛnt/

Noun

lent (plural lents)

1. (Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

   Hezekiah gave up vaping for Lent.

   1. (Eastern Christianity) The 40 days preceding Lazarus Saturday, the Saturday preceding Holy Week.
   2. (Roman Catholicism) The 46 days preceding Easter, reckoned as 40 days by excluding Sundays.
2. (UK, education) Ellipsis of Lent term
3. (Buddhism, Myanmar) vassa, period of the Buddhist lent during the rainy season

Synonyms

• (Christianity) Lententide, Lent season, Lenten season, season of Lent, Quadragesima
• (Eastern Christianity) Great Lent
• (educational) Lent term

Translations

• French: carême
• German: Fastenzeit
• Italian: Quaresima
• Portuguese: quaresma
• Russian: Вели́кий пост
• Spanish: Cuaresma

Etymology 2

Two main origins:

• Reduced form of Dutch van Lent, a habitational surname for someone from Lent, in Gelderland.
• Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Lenth, from a personal name related to the noun Land.

Proper noun

1. Surname.

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