| 单词 | lent |
| 释义 | lent[ lent ] / lɛnt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR lent ON THESAURUS.COM verbsimple past tense and past participle of lend. OTHER WORDS FROM lentun·lent, adjectivewell-lent, adjectiveDefinition 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 LentFirst 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 Lentpost-Lent, adjectiveDefinition for lent (3 of 3)-lent a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, variant of -ulent: pestilent. Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for lent (1 of 2)lent / (lɛnt) / verbthe past tense and past participle of lend British Dictionary definitions for lent (2 of 2)Lent / (lɛnt) / nounChristianity 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 LentOld English lencten, lengten spring, literally: lengthening (of hours of daylight) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for lentLent In Christianity, a time of fasting and repentance in the spring, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending several weeks later on Easter. notes for LentTo “give something up for Lent” is to abandon a pleasurable habit as an act of devotion and self-discipline. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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