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Lent.

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

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Meaning & usage

noun/lɛnt/

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

    Hezekiah gave up vaping for Lent.

  2. A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures. The 40 days preceding Lazarus Saturday, the Saturday preceding Holy Week.

  3. A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures. The 46 days preceding Easter, reckoned as 40 days by excluding Sundays.

  4. Ellipsis of Lent term.

    UK · abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis

  5. vassa, period of the Buddhist lent during the rainy season

    Myanmar
Where this word comes from

Shortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn (“spring”), as in a season into which days lengthen as it progresses. Cognate with Alemannic German langsé, Langssi (“spring”), Bavarian longas, lòngas, longast (“spring”), Cimbrian langaz, langhes, långez (“spring”), lentz (“March”), Dutch lente (“spring”), German Lenz, Lenze (“spring”), Mòcheno langes (“spring”).

name

  1. A surname.

Where this word comes from

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.

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