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Lent

noun

1 Lent

A period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.

synonym: Lententide.

Dutch: vasten
Polish: Wielki Post

Roget 956: fasting; xerophagy; famishment, starvation.    fast, jour maigre [Fr.]; fast day, banyan day; Lent, quadragesima; Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, ... show more

Roget 998: rite; ceremony, ritual, liturgy, ceremonial; ordinance, observance, function, duty; form, formulary; solemnity, sacrament; incantation ... show more


adjective

Roget 787: lending etc. v.; lent etc. v.; unborrowed etc. (borrowed) etc. 788.   

Moby thesaurus: Advent, Allhallowmas, Allhallows, Allhallowtide, Annunciation, Annunciation Day, Ascension Day, Ash Wednesday, Candlemas, Candlemas Day, Carnival, Christmas, Corpus Christi, Easter, Easter Monday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Eastertide, Ember days, Epiphany ... show more.

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lend

verb

1 lend

Bestow a quality on:
— Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company.

synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart.

2 lend

Give temporarily; let have for a limited time:
— I will lend you my car.

synonym: loan.

Roget 787: lend, advance, accommodate with; lend on security; loan; pawn etc. (security) 771.    intrust, invest; place out to interest, put out to interest.    let, ... show more

Dutch: lenen, uitlenen

3 lend

Have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to.

Dutch: lenen


Moby thesaurus: accommodate, accommodate with, add, advance, allow, bestow, borrow, confer, contribute, discount, discount notes, fit, float a loan, furnish, give, impart, lease-lend, lend-lease, loan, loan-shark ... show more.

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