Definitions for loan

loan loan

Spelling: [lohn]
IPA: /loʊn/

Loan is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in loan (alno).

Definitions for loan

noun

  1. the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something:
  2. something lent or furnished on condition of being returned, especially a sum of money lent at interest:
  3. loanword.
  4. a country lane; secondary road.
  5. an uncultivated plot of farmland, usually used for milking cows.

Idioms

  1. on loan, borrowed for temporary use: temporarily provided or released by one's regular employer, superior, or owner for use by another:

verb (used with object)

  1. to make a loan of; lend:
  2. to lend (money) at interest.

verb (used without object)

  1. to make a loan or loans; lend.

Origin of loan

1150-1200; Middle English lon(e), lan(e) (noun), Old English lān Old Norse lān; replacing its cognate, Old English lǣn loan, grant, cognate with Dutch leen loan, German Leh(e)n fief; cf.

Examples for loan

Mr. Mercier obtained from the city of Montreal the loan of fifteen picked men.

He jokes about going through airport security with the then 800-year-old document, which is now on loan to the National Archives.

With a $20,000 loan from a friend, matched from her own funds and credit, Roberts got a full line up and running in early 2013.

"Throw me the loan of a trusty Bartly, for a cushion," said he.

If it be a loan, Seor, I fear that the time is not opportune.

He must go and humbly he must ask for the loan of a small sum of money.

He continues to search for a loan to renovate his beloved Hotel Pourquoi Pas?

This loan has done nothing to deter the hardliners: just ask the current occupants of Evin prison.

What were the terms of the loan—did the Hermitage pay and if not, why not?

Young Sparrow must either starve or ask his neighbor to help him with a loan.

Word Value for loan
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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