n. A grant; gift; reward.n. That which is lent; anything furnished on condition of the future return of it, or of the delivery of an equivalent in kind; especially, a sum of money lent at interest.n. The act of lending or the condition of being lent; a lending: as, to arrange a loan.n. [In civil law, when the loan was made of things which could be returned only by their material equivalent, it was called mutuum; when made of things which could be returned in the identical form, it was called commodatum.]n. Permission to use; grant of the use: as, a loan of credit.To lend.To lend money or other property; make a loan.n. A lane.n. An open space between fields of corn, left untilled as a passage for cattle; hence, a place near a village for milking cows. Also loaning.