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loaned

loaned is the simple past and past participle of loan.

Meaning of loan

Verb

loan (third-person singular simple present loans, present participle loaning, simple past and past participle loaned)

  1. (US, ditransitive, informal, usually, dated and occasionally proscribed in UK) To lend (something) to (someone).
    • In the course of a correspondence that passed between us at this period, he mentioned, to my utter astonishment, the fact of his having loaned Neilson 81000 to buy my bill on Maryland; and stated that he could not proceed to make the payment until Neilson refunded the money.1820 June 1, William King, Letters to James Monroe: President of the United States, from William King

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Words formed from loaned

Questions about loaned

What is loaned the simple past and past participle of?
Loaned is the simple past and past participle of loan.

Words near loaned in the dictionary

  1. loanback
  2. loanbacks
  3. loanblend
  4. loanblends
  5. Loanda
  6. loaned
  7. loanee
  8. loanees
  9. loaner
  10. loaners
  11. loanest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loaned (page history and authors); loan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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