Definitions for lent

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lent lent

Spelling: [lent]

IPA: /lɛnt/

Lent is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in lent (elnt).

Definitions for lent

noun

1. (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.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lend.

Idioms

1. lend a hand, to give help; aid:

verb (used with object)

1. to grant the use of (something) on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
2. to give (money) on condition that it is returned and that interest is paid for its temporary use.
3. to give or contribute obligingly or helpfully:
4. to adapt (oneself or itself) to something:
5. to furnish or impart:

verb (used without object)

1. to make a loan.

Origin of lent

before 1000; Middle English lente(n), Old English lencten, lengten spring, Lent, literally, lengthening (of daylight hours); cognate with Dutch lente, German Lenz spring; see Examples for lent

What may we not do with them, if it were not for the season of lent?

When she was finally arrested, the Delle Donnas lent her $5,000 to retain an attorney, a source close to the case told me.

Shortly thereafter, T.I. lent his first post-incarceration verse to a remix of “Magic.”

But the damage would not have happened if Will had not lent the boat to me.

Oleksiy Kosarev, leader of a local anti-corruption organization, lent some credence to this conception.

lent her by Father Christopher of the priory, forsooth—that is ever her answer.

Like lent, the season of Advent was a period of reflection and fasting, and items such as dairy and sugar were forbidden.

And the books are lent to any person in each section who wishes to read them?

In return we lent the hospitable Post our halftones, and they adorned its first city edition next morning.

The officers came down at night, and lent us a hand with the work.