- simple past tense and past participle of lend.
- (in the Christian religion) an annual season of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40 weekdays to Easter, observed by Roman Catholic, Anglican, and certain other churches.
- a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, variant of -ulent: pestilent.
- the past tense and past participle of lend
- the period of forty weekdays lasting from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, observed as a time of penance and fasting commemorating Jesus' fasting in the wilderness
- falling within or associated with the season before Easter
- (at Cambridge University) Lent term boat races
