Associations to the word «Lent»

Wiktionary

LENT, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of lend
LENT, proper noun. Period of penitence for Christians before Easter.
LENT A HAND, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of lend a hand
LENT AN EAR, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of lend an ear
LENT LILIES, noun. Plural of Lent lily
LENT LILY, noun. The daffodil.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne