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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the first Sunday in Lent;
[syn: Quadragesima, Quadrigesima Sunday]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Quadragesima \Quad`ra*ges"i*ma\, n. [L., fr. quadragesimus the fortieth, fr. quadraginta forty; akin to quattuor four. See Four.] (Eccl.) The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. [1913 Webster] Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Quadragesima n 1: the first Sunday in Lent [syn: Quadragesima, Quadrigesima Sunday]