Lent term

{{short description|Winter term in some British universities}}

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Lent term, named for Lent, the six-week fasting period before Easter, is the name of the winter academic term at the following British universities:

• University of Cambridge{{cite web|url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/term-dates-and-calendars|title=Term dates and calendars|date=28 January 2013|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=28 July 2018}}
• Canterbury Christ Church University{{cite web|url=https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/students/academic-services/timetables-and-dates/university-dates-2017-18.aspx|title=University Dates 2017-18|publisher=Canterbury Christ Church University|accessdate=28 July 2018}}
• University of Lancaster{{cite web|url=http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/term-dates/|title=Term Dates|publisher=Lancaster University|accessdate=28 July 2018}}
• University of Liverpool{{cite web|url=https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/cgso/dom/DATES,OF,MEETINGS,2017-18,FINAL.pdf|title=Dates of Meetings Session 2017-18|publisher=University of Liverpool|accessdate=28 July 2018}}
• London School of Economics and Political Science{{cite web|url=https://info.lse.ac.uk/current-students/term-dates|publisher=LSE|accessdate=28 July 2018|title=Term dates}}
• Swansea University{{cite web|url=http://www.swansea.ac.uk/the-university/world-class/semesterandtermdates/|title=Semester and Term Dates|publisher=Swansea University|accessdate=28 July 2018}}

and was the name of the autumn term at the University of Sydney before it swapped over to the two semester system in 1989. It was also formerly used at King's College London, University of Kent, Exeter University, University of Wales, Lampeter, University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Heythrop College, University of London.

The term runs from January to March and thus corresponds to Hilary term at Oxford and Trinity College Dublin, and Epiphany term at Durham. At Sydney, it ran from March to May (10th to 22nd Mondays of the year).