Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "lent" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Defined As

40 days before easter

Derived Terms

unlent

Etymologically Related To

lenten

Inflected/Variant Forms

lend

Context

christianity

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

carene liturgical season season

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Ash Wednesday (1st day) Clean Monday (1st day) Holy Saturday Laetare Sunday (4th Sunday) Lazarus Friday Oculi Sunday (3rd Sunday) Palm Sunday (6th Sunday) Passion Sunday (5th Sunday) Quadragesima Sunday (1st Sunday) Reminiscere Sunday (2nd Sunday)

Type Of (IsA)

festival religious occurrence season

Part Of

church calendar

Related Terms

ash wednesday easter fasting holy saturday penitence western christianity

Synonym Network

great lent

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.