Loading page
say it: BAH-roh-ur
borrower is a noun meaning "someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent". It carries one recorded sense.
someone who receives something on the promise to return it or its equivalent
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for borrower come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.