LENTENTIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lententide mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENTENTIDE (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 ("Lententide" is a kind of...):

season (a recurrent time marked by major holidays)

Meronyms (parts of "Lententide"):

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 ("Lententide" is a part of...):

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