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Lent

 
 
/lent/ noun [U]

Translation

the religious period before Easter (= a Christian holiday), in which some Christians do not allow themselves something that they usually enjoy
dinî inanış gereği yapılan perhiz, lent
She's given up chocolate for Lent.2198
(Definition of Lent noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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