lend
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Is lend a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of lend?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.Examples: "I will only lend you my car if you fill up the tank."; "Where is that hundred euros I lent you months ago?"; "Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend."transitive
2. (intransitive) To make a loan.intransitive
3. (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.Examples: "Poems do not lend themselves to translation easily."; "The long history of the past does not lend itself to a simple black and white interpretation."reflexive
4. (proscribed) To borrow.proscribed
noun (English)
1. (chiefly dialectal, with "the") Loan (permission to borrow (something)).Examples: "“But,” says Arthur, “I wouldn't be proud of your clothes, / For you've only the lend of them, as I suppose.”"; "Yesterday asked Mr. Aray the lend of 8s. 6d. for a month."; "However, Weldon would soon note his declining potato yield, and his suspicions were confirmed one night when he confronted Joe with a jumper full of spuds. Somehow, Joe managed to talk his way out of trouble. 'I told him I was getting the lend of them,' Joe laughed. It wasn't only vegetables that were targeted, though. For generations of children who grew up on ..."dialectalwith-definite-article
noun (English)
1. (anatomy, UK dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.UKdialectal
2. (UK dialectal, of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.UKdialectal
Definition source: Wiktionary