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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOAN, n.
1. The act of lending; a lending.
2. That which is lent; any thing furnished for temporary use to a person at his request, on the express or implied condition that the specific thing shall be returned, or its equivalent in kind, but without compensation for the use; as a loan of a book or of bread.
3. Something furnished for temporary use, on the condition that it shall be returned or its equivalent, but with a compensation for the use. In this sense, loan is generally applied to money. [See Lend.]
4. A furnishing; permission to use; grant of the use; as a loan of credit.
LOAN, v.t.
To lend; to deliver to another for temporary use, on condition that the thing shall be returned, as a book; or to deliver for use, on condition that an equivalent in kind shall be returned, as bread; or to deliver for temporary use, on condition that an equivalent in kind shall be returned, with a compensation for the use, as in the case of money at interest. Bills of credit were issued, to be loaned on interest.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
2: a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English [syn: loanword, loan] v
1: give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money" [syn: lend, loan] [ant: borrow]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English lon, from Old Norse l?n; akin to Old English l?n loan, l?on to lend, Latin linquere to leave, Greek leipein Date: 12th century 1. a. money lent at interest b. something lent usually for the borrower's temporary use 2. a. the grant of temporary use b. the temporary duty of a person transferred to another job for a limited time 3. loanword II. transitive verb Date: 13th century lend • loanable adjective Usage: The verb loan is one of the words English settlers brought to America and continued to use after it had died out in Britain. Its use was soon noticed by British visitors and somewhat later by the New England literati, who considered it a bit provincial. It was flatly declared wrong in 1870 by a popular commentator, who based his objection on etymology. A later scholar showed that the commentator was ignorant of Old English and thus unsound in his objection, but by then it was too late, as the condemnation had been picked up by many other commentators. Although a surprising number of critics still voice objections, loan is entirely standard as a verb. You should note that it is used only literally; lend is the verb used for figurative expressions, such as “lending a hand” or “lending enchantment.”

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 something lent, esp. a sum of money to be returned normally with interest. 2 the act of lending or state of being lent. 3 funds acquired by the State, esp. from individuals, and regarded as a debt. 4 a word, custom, etc., adopted by one people from another. --v.tr. lend (esp. money). Phrases and idioms: loan shark colloq. a person who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest. loan-translation an expression adopted by one language from another in a more or less literally translated form. on loan acquired or given as a loan. Derivatives: loanable adj. loanee n. loaner n. Etymology: ME lan f. ON lán f. Gmc: cf. LEND 2. n. (also loaning) Sc. 1 a lane. 2 an open place where cows are milked. Etymology: ME var. of LANE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loan Loan, n. [See Lawn.] A loanin. [Scot.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loan Loan, n. [OE. lone, lane, AS. l[=a]n, l[ae]n, fr. le['o]n to lend; akin to D. leen loan, fief, G. lehen fief, Icel. l[=a]n, G. leihen to lend, OHG. l[=i]han, Icel. lj[=i], Goth. leihwan, L. linquere to leave, Gr. ?, Skr. ric. ? Cf. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Loan Loan, n. t. [imp. & p. p. Loaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Loaning.] To lend; -- sometimes with out. --Kent. By way of location or loaning them out. --J. Langley (1644).

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(loans, loaning, loaned) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A loan is a sum of money that you borrow. The president wants to make it easier for small businesses to get bank loans. ...loan repayments. N-COUNT see also bridging loan, soft loan 2. If someone gives you a loan of something, you borrow it from them. He had offered the loan of his small villa at Cap Ferrat. N-SING: N of n 3. If you loan something to someone, you lend it to them. He had kindly offered to loan us all the plants required for the exhibit... We were approached by the Royal Yachting Association to see if we would loan our boat to them. = lend VERB: V n n, V n to n, also V n • Loan out means the same as loan. It is common practice for clubs to loan out players to sides in the lower divisions... The ground was loaned out for numerous events including pop concerts. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) to n, be V-ed out, also V n P, V P n 4. If something is on loan, it has been borrowed. ...impressionist paintings on loan from the National Gallery... PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The Mosaic law required that when an Israelite needed to borrow, what he asked was to be freely lent to him, and no interest was to be charged, although interest might be taken of a foreigner (Ex. 22:25; Deut. 23:19, 20; Lev. 25:35-38). At the end of seven years all debts were remitted. Of a foreigner the loan might, however, be exacted. At a later period of the Hebrew commonwealth, when commerce increased, the practice of exacting usury or interest on loans, and of suretiship in the commercial sense, grew up. Yet the exaction of it from a Hebrew was regarded as discreditable (Ps. 15:5; Prov. 6:1, 4; 11:15; 17:18; 20:16; 27:13; Jer. 15:10).

Limitations are prescribed by the law to the taking of a pledge from the borrower. The outer garment in which a man slept at night, if taken in pledge, was to be returned before sunset (Ex. 22:26, 27; Deut. 24:12, 13). A widow's garment (Deut. 24:17) and a millstone (6) could not be taken. A creditor could not enter the house to reclaim a pledge, but must remain outside till the borrower brought it (10, 11). The Hebrew debtor could not be retained in bondage longer than the seventh year, or at farthest the year of jubilee (Ex. 21:2; Lev. 25:39, 42), but foreign sojourners were to be "bondmen for ever" (Lev. 25:44-54).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Lend.

Moby Thesaurus

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