home loan

1. 1.

   a loan secured by equity value in the borrower's home

   Synonymshome equity credithome equity loanequity credit line

   Broaderconsumer creditloan

Questions about home loan

What does home loan mean?

home loan means "a loan secured by equity value in the borrower's home".

What is another word for home loan?

Close synonyms include home equity credit, home equity loan, equity credit line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is home loan a common word?

home loan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.