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Quadragesima
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
Lent: so called because it continues forty days. See
Lent
.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
noun.
the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.
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noun.
the first Sunday in Lent
Word Usage
"Still it has been used from the Anglo-Saxon period to translate the more significant Latin term quadragesima (Fr. carême,"
cross-reference
quadragesima sunday
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
christian holy day
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
Lent