LENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lent mean? 

• LENT (noun)
  The noun LENT has 1 sense:

1. a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday

  Familiarity information: LENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Lent; Lententide

Hypernyms ("Lent" is a kind of...):

season (a recurrent time marked by major holidays)

Meronyms (parts of "Lent"):

Good Friday (Friday before Easter)

Ash Wednesday (the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras ('Fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance)

Holonyms ("Lent" is a part of...):

church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar (a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals)

 Context examples 

"And such lovely weather, I'm so glad of that," added Beth, tidily sorting neck and hair ribbons in her best box, lent for the great occasion.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He read more of Swinburne than was contained in the volume Ruth had lent him; and "Dolores" he understood thoroughly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have seen a white mare of our family thread a needle (which I lent her on purpose) with that joint.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Perhaps it would have been better if I had killed him, for he must, as you say, have lent a hand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Irvine thrust between his lips the little finger of each hand and lent to her efforts a shrill whistling.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I devoured the books they lent me: then it was full satisfaction to discuss with them in the evening what I had perused during the day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

However, gravity data collected during the spacecraft's several close passes over the south polar region lent support to the possibility the sea might be global.

(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)

And he lent the king the wonderful sword, and he slew the enemy’s army with it; and thus the kingdom was once more in peace and plenty.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Some probability is lent to the theory by the fact that one of these students came from the north of Ireland, and, to the best of Miss Cushing’s belief, from Belfast.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lead study author Bülent Kiziltan, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and his team found this one by measuring motions of pulsars within the cluster.

(Elusive Middleweight Black Hole Found at Center of Giant Star Cluster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)