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Lent is two common words that happen to look the same. First, lent is the past tense and the past participle of lend: she lent me a pen; I have lent him my bike. You lend something you own; the other person borrows it. British English is especially happy with lent. American English often prefers loaned for this verb, though lent is still understood and used. Second, Lent (usually with a capital L) is the Christian season of about forty days before Easter. Many churches treat it as a time to fast, pray, and give something up. In careful writing the season keeps the capital, like Easter and Christmas; in fast typing you will see it in lower case too. There is also a surname Lent, from a Dutch place name, or perhaps from a German personal name — you may meet it on a letter, not in a vocabulary list. Though actually, the season-name is an old word for spring, the time when days grow longer. Sister languages still use a cousin of it for spring (Dutch lente, German Lenz). English kept the church meaning and mostly let spring go to the word spring.
①（lend 的過去式）借出了 ②（宗教，常寫 Lent）四旬期；也有人說大齋期
組成As the past of lend: a form of lend. As the season: shortened from Lenten, from Old English lencten, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn (spring), the season into which days lengthen. As a name: from Dutch van Lent (a place in Gelderland), or perhaps an American spelling of German Lenth.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Lentnoun詞源 1/lɛnt/
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ChristianityA period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
- Hezekiah gave up vaping for Lent.
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ChristianityEastern-ChristianityA period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
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CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismA period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.
- This Tuesday and Wednesday, four holidays from different cultures and religions overlap in a rare calendar year. The celebrations of Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) and Lunar New Year both occur on Tuesday, Feb. 17 [2026]. This won't happen again until Feb. 13, 2029, according to the websites chinahighlights.com and mardigrasneworleans.com. Ramadan is expected to start Tuesday evening, pending official confirmation, and Lent ([which begins on] Ash Wednesday) begins on Feb. 18. Last year, Ramadan and Lent began within a week of each other on Feb. 28 and March 5. The holidays are all happening within two days this year because several long solar, lunar and lunisolar calendar cycles sync up. Lunar New Year happens on the second new moon after winter solstice, which is also Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) — 47 days before Easter Sunday.
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Buddhismlifestylereligionvassa, period of the Buddhist lent during the rainy season
Lentname詞源 2
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A surname.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。