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Plural of loan

regular plural

The plural of loan is loans.

Forms of loan

Singularloan /ləʊn/
Pluralloans /loʊnz/
Countablecountable

Loans in a sentence

  • All loans from the library, whether books or audio material, must be returned within two weeks.
  • Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  • I finally repaid my student loans, just before sending my kids to college.From the entry repay
  • Somebody never pays his loans, yet he has the audacity to ask the bank for money.From the entry audacity
  • Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.From the entry paltry

Meaning of loan

  1. noun An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
  2. noun 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).
  3. noun The contract and array of legal or ethical obligations surrounding a loan.

Full definition of loan

Questions about the plural of loan

What is the plural of loan?
The plural of loan is loans.
Is loan countable?
Loan is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: loan (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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