loanword, loan
(noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. âblitzâ is a German word borrowed into modern English
loan
(noun) the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
lend, loan
(verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time; âI will lend you my carâ; âloan me some moneyâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
loan (plural loans)
(law, banking, finance) An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
Synonyms: loaning, lending
(law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).
Synonym: principal
The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
The permission to borrow any item.
• (something borrowed): bailment
• (something borrowed): mutuum, commodatum
loan (third-person singular simple present loans, present participle loaning, simple past and past participle loaned)
(usually double transitive, US, dated in UK, informal) To lend (something) to (someone).
• This usage, once widespread in the UK, is now confined to the US (or perhaps parts thereof).
• lend is often preferred when the object being lent is something other than money.
loan (plural loans)
(Scotland) A lonnen.
• Anlo, NOLA, Nola, lona, nola
Source: Wiktionary
Loan, n. Etym: [See Lawn.]
Definition: A loanin. [Scot.]
Loan, n. Etym: [OE. lone, lane, AS. lan, lĂŠn, fr. leĂłn to lend; akin to D. leen loan, fief, G. lehen fief, Icel. lan, G. leihen to lend, OHG. lihan, Icel. lji, Goth. leihwan, L. linquere to leave, Gr. ric. Delinquent, Eclipse, Eleven, Ellipse, Lend, License, Relic.]
1. The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
2. That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan. Loan office. (a) An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) A pawnbroker's shop.
Loan, n. t. [imp. & p. p. Loaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Loaning.]
Definition: To lend; -- sometimes with out. Kent. By way of location or loaning them out. J. Langley (1644).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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