Home › Words › L › loaneeloaneeloanee means borrower; someone who is loaned something.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, loanee ranks #2,710 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom loan + -ee.nounborrower; someone who is loaned somethingSomeone who is being loaned, someone playing for another club on loan.e.g.“Then, Andy Keogh picked up the ball on the right and squared to Danny Drinkwater on the edge of the box, but the Manchester United loanee's shot lacked power to trouble Stoke stopper Thomas Sorensen.” — 2011 January 18, David Dulin, “Cardiff 0 - 2 Stoke”, in BBC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.borrowee 78% match — One from whom something is borrowed; a lender. vs loanee →loaner 77% match — One who loans; a lender. vs loanee →borrower 74% match — One who borrows. vs loanee →onloan 73% match — A loan that is made from something that was borrowed; something that is onloaned. vs loanee →loanholder 67% match — One who takes out a loan. vs loanee →onlend 63% match — To loan out something that has been borrowed. vs loanee →loaning 63% match — The granting of a loan. vs loanee →borrowing 63% match — Shoplifting. vs loanee →