Standard Lemma guide
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noun
Loan (permission to borrow (something)).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal, with-definite-article
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noun
The lumbar region; loin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
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noun
The loins; flank; buttocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal
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verb
To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To make a loan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: reflexive
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verb
To afford; to grant or furnish in general.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To borrow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed
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verb
give temporarily; let have for a limited time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: loan
Antonyms: borrow
Broader terms: give
Narrower terms: hire out, rent out, farm out, trust, advance
verb
bestow a quality on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: factor, instill, transfuse, tinsel, throw in
verb
have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: be
History
From earlier len (with excrescent -d, as in sound), from Middle English lenen, lænen, from Old English lǣnan (“to lend; give, grant, lease”), from Proto-West Germanic *laihnijan, from Proto-Germanic *laihnijaną (“to loan”), from Proto-Germanic *laihną (“loan”), from Proto-Indo-European *leykw- (“to leave, leave over”). Cognate with Scots len, lend (“to lend”), West Frisian liene (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Dutch lenen (“to lend, borrow, loan”), Danish låne (“to lend, loan”), Swedish låna (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic lána (“to lend, loan”), Icelandic léna (“to grant”), Latin linquō (“quit, leave, forlet”), Ancient Greek λείπω (leípō, “leave, release”). See also loan.
From Middle English lende (usually in plural as lendes, leendes, lyndes), from Old English lendenu, lendino (“loins”), plural of Old English lenden (“loin”), from Proto-West Germanic *landī, from Proto-Germanic *landį̄ (“loin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendh- (“loin, kidney”). Cognate with Scots lend, leynd (“the loins, flank, buttocks”), Dutch lendenen (“loins, reins”), German Lenden (“loins”), Swedish länder (“loins”), Danish lænd (“loin”), Icelandic lendar (“loins”), Latin lumbus (“loin”) (whence loin), Polish lędźwie (“loins”), Russian ля́двея (ljádveja, “thigh, haunch”).
Across languages
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