Synonyms for lent
lɛntlent

Princeton's WordNet

1. Lent, Lententidenoun

   a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday

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1. • Season

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1. lentnoun

   Synonyms:
   quadragesima

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1. List of paraphrases for "lent":

   loaned, provided, slow

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How to use lent in a sentence?

1. Richard Valantasis:

   In Eastern Orthodoxy, for example, the fasting rules are pretty elaborate -- no milk, no eggs, no meat, no fish with blood systems, and sometimes no leavened bread, even though the foods for Lent are really wonderful and tasty, they still remind you that you are in the middle of a fasting period and therefore, your eating habits continually reinforce the spiritual disciplines you're supposed to be working through.

2. Ben Houchen:

   The Conservatives have been lent the votes of local people, and if we don't get it right - and if Boris Johnson doesn't get it right - I absolutely believe that they'll all go Labour again in five years' time.

3. Gren Sowerby:

   I lent [sic] in to take a photo when he let out a huge roarI got the shock of my life, he roared to say: Im the King of the Jungle and then I couldnt believe it when he smiled at me like when someone winks at you to say like: Haha!

4. Carol Potter:

   In honor of Luke I have given up eating pork, in its many varied forms, for Lent, pigs are very intelligent animals and Luke often brought his sweetie to the set. Anyone want to join me?

5. Marcel Proust:

   The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.