[lohn] 
| 1. | the act of lending; a grant of the temporary use of something: the loan of a book. |
| 2. | something lent or furnished on condition of being returned, esp. a sum of money lent at interest: a $1000 loan at 10 percent interest. |
| 3. | loanword. |
| 4. | to make a loan of; lend: Will you loan me your umbrella? |
| 5. | to lend (money) at interest. |
| 6. | to make a loan or loans; lend. |
| 7. | on loan,
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[lohn] | 1. | a country lane; secondary road. |
| 2. | an uncultivated plot of farmland, usually used for milking cows. |
[lohn-wurd] | a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish. |
| loan (lōn) n.
To lend. [Middle English lan, lon, from Old Norse lān; see leikw- in Indo-European roots.] loan'er n. Usage Note: The verb loan is well established in American usage and cannot be considered incorrect. The frequent objections to the form by American grammarians may have originated from a provincial deference to British critics, who long ago labeled the usage a typical Americanism. Loan is, however, used to describe only physical transactions, as of money or goods; for figurative transactions, lend is correct: Distance lends enchantment. The allusions lend the work a classical tone. |