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loan

noun
/ləʊn/UK/loʊn/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *leykʷ-✻
  2. derived from *laihną✻
  3. derived from lán
  4. inherited from lone

Definitions

  1. An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.

    • Because of the loan that John made to me, I was able to pay my tuition for the upcoming semester.

  2. A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with…

    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).

    • All loans from the library, whether books or audio material, must be returned within two weeks.
    • He got a loan of five thousand pounds.

  3. The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.

    • He made a payment on his loan.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The permission to borrow any item.

      • Thank you for the loan of your lawn mower.

    2. To lend (something) to (someone).

      • All the rest—six out of eleven, more than half—were loaned to him.

    3. An area of uncultivated ground near a village or farmhouse.

      • the Loan of Turchloy, the Black Loan
      • [...] The herds upon the loan, As if a sheep had fled, wi' speed, At Grumphy tykes hound on Wi' loud huzza!
      • [...] meeting in the loan above the house his own great plough with the six oxen, which were the pride of his heart.

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at loan. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at loan. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at loan

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA