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noun
An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: banking, business, finance, law
Synonyms: loaning, lending
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: banking, business, finance, law
Synonyms: principal
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The permission to borrow any item.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To lend (something) to (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, ditransitive, informal, usually
Qualifier: dated and occasionally proscribed in UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: loanword
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: word
Narrower terms: Latinism, Gallicism
noun
the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: debt
Narrower terms: bank loan, home loan, home equity credit, home equity loan, equity credit line, installment credit, installment loan, call loan, demand loan, direct loan, participation loan, loan participation, participation financing, personal loan, consumer loan, point, real estate loan, mortgage loan, time loan
verb
give temporarily; let have for a limited time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: lend
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: give
Narrower terms: hire out, rent out, farm out, trust, advance
History
From Middle English lone, lane, from Old Norse lán, from Proto-Germanic *laihną, from Proto-Indo-European *leykw- (“to leave (over)”). Cognate with Icelandic lán, Swedish lån, Danish lån, German Lehen (“fief”), Dutch leen (“fief”), West Frisian lien, North Frisian leen (“fief; loan; office”), Scots lane, lain, len, Old English lǣn. More at lend.
From Scottish Gaelic lòn (“marshy meadow”) (compare lèana (“wet meadow, marsh, meadow”)).
Across languages
231 source translations are retained for this English entry.
