Library / English Dictionary

LOAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English

Synonyms:

loan; loanword

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("loan" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loan"):

Latinism (a word or phrase borrowed from Latin)

Gallicism (a word or phrase borrowed from French)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The temporary provision of money (usually at interest)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("loan" is a kind of...):

debt (money or goods or services owed by one person to another)

Meronyms (parts of "loan"):

principal (the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loan"):

bank loan (a loan made by a bank; to be repaid with interest on or before a fixed date)

equity credit line; home equity credit; home equity loan; home loan (a loan secured by equity value in the borrower's home)

installment credit; installment loan (a loan repaid with interest in equal periodic payments)

call loan; demand loan (a loan that is repayable on demand)

direct loan (a loan by a lender to a customer without the use of a third party; direct lending gives the lender greater discretion in making loans)

loan participation; participation financing; participation loan (a loan that is shared by a group of banks that join to make a loan too big for any one of them alone)

consumer loan; personal loan (a loan that establishes consumer credit that is granted for personal use; usually unsecured and based on the borrower's integrity and ability to pay)

point (one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan)

mortgage loan; real estate loan (a loan on real estate that is usually secured by a mortgage)

time loan (a loan that is payable on or before a specified date)

Derivation:

loan (give temporarily; let have for a limited time)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give temporarily; let have for a limited time

Example:

loan me some money

Synonyms:

lend; loan

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "loan" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "loan"):

farm out; hire out; rent out (grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee)

trust ((chiefly archaic) extend credit to)

advance (pay in advance)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence examples:

They loan cars to the tourists

They loan the tourists their cars

Derivation:

loan (the temporary provision of money (usually at interest))

Credits

 Context examples: 

Within the room all was tranquil enough, for Susan having disappeared with the others, there were soon only her father and herself remaining; and he, taking out a newspaper, the accustomary loan of a neighbour, applied himself to studying it, without seeming to recollect her existence.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I’m not very good at telling a story, Dr. Watson, but it is like this with me: I used to have a billet at Coxon & Woodhouse, of Drapers’ Gardens, but they were let in early in the spring through the Venezuelan loan, as no doubt you remember, and came a nasty cropper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is a superb time to have this meeting or to apply for a loan or mortgage.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A government-guaranteed loan covered the costs, but the exact figure was kept secret.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

With spirits, courage, and curiosity up to anything, William expressed an inclination to hunt; and Crawford could mount him without the slightest inconvenience to himself, and with only some scruples to obviate in Sir Thomas, who knew better than his nephew the value of such a loan, and some alarms to reason away in Fanny.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I had two or three shillings of my week's money in my pocket—from which I presume that it must have been on a Wednesday night when we held this conversation—and I hastily produced them, and with heartfelt emotion begged Mrs. Micawber to accept of them as a loan.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The council of buccaneers had lasted some time, when one of them re-entered the house, and with a repetition of the same salute, which had in my eyes an ironical air, begged for a moment's loan of the torch.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You can also count on having staunch family support for home-related goals, so if you need a loan or an outright gift of cash, ask your parents for help this month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Austrian partner asked for the price to be kept secret, but the commissioner stated the purchase was financed by a loan, so it is not a burden on the state budget.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

Uranus is currently in your house of credit cards, loans, and other sources of money.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)