lententide

Questions about lententide

What does lententide mean?

lententide means "a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday".

How many syllables are in lententide?

lententide has 3 syllables and divides as len-ten-tide under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lententide?

Close synonyms include Lent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lententide a common word?

lententide is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.