Lent, in Western Christianity, is the period before the Christian holy day of Easter.

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Lent may also refer to:

• Great Lent, in Eastern Christianity, the period that corresponds to Western Lent
• Jack o' Lent, an event in Medieval England involving the burning of an effigy of Judas Iscariot made of straw and rags
• Lent Event, community based Christian social justice movement
• Lent in Malta, numerous religious traditions, most of them inherited from one generation to the next, that are part of the Paschal celebrations in the Maltese Islands

• Lent, Ain, a commune in Ain, France
• Lent, Jura, a commune in Jura, France
• Lent, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Lent Township, Chisago County, Minnesota, a township in the U.S.
• Lent Homestead and Cemetery, a historic cemetery in New York City
• Lent, Maribor, an old part of Maribor, Slovenia

• Abraham Lent (1789–1873), Nova Scotia politician
• Abraham Lent (New York City) (1815–1882), New York politician
• Arie van Lent (b. 1970), Dutch-German footballer
• Berkeley Lent (1921–2007), American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon
• Blair Lent (1930–2009), American author and illustrator of mostly Chinese-themed books
• Helmut Lent (1918–1944), German night fighter ace in World War II
• James Lent (1782–1833), U.S. Representative from New York
• James Lent (Nova Scotia politician) (1753–1838)
• John Lent (b. 1948), Canadian poet and novelist
• Michael Lent (visual artist), co-creator and publisher of Toby Room magazine
• Norman F. Lent (1931–2012), Conservative Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York
• Willis Lent (1904–1959), rear admiral in the United States Navy

• Lent (album), an album by Dallas Crane
• Lent Festival, arts festival in Lent, Maribor, Slovenia
• Lent Talks, a series of talks, normally broadcast on BBC Radio in the United Kingdom, to mark the Christian season of Lent
• The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559), an oil-on-panel work painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
• Lent, a 2019 fantasy novel by Jo Walton

• "Buddhist Lent", a commonly used term for Vassa or Rains Retreat, a three-month annual retreat observed by Theravada practitioners in Burma, which takes place during the wet season
• Lent term, spring academic term at certain British universities

• Lent Bumps or Lents, a set of rowing races held annually in Cambridge

• Lending
• Lentic ecosystem, a lake ecosystem
• Lenting, a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria, Germany
• Lento (disambiguation)
• Lents (disambiguation)
• Lint (disambiguation)

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