Lent
A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving…A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
Meaning
4 sensesA period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
Hezekiah gave up vaping for Lent.
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.
a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
The 46 days preceding Easter, reckoned as 40 days by excluding Sundays.
Fastenzeit
Вели́кий постVelíkij post
Вели́кий пістVelýkyj pist
(Myanmar)Vassa, period of the Buddhist lent during the rainy season
Translations
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Origin
Shortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn (“sShortened form of Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn (“spring”), as in a season into which days lengthen as it progresses.
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