Noun

(en noun)

One who lends, especially money.

* Shakespeare , Hamlet, circa 1602, Act 1 scene 3, Polonius speaks [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/2ws2610.txt]

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be:

For loan oft loses both itself and friend;

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

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Noun

(en noun)

One from whom something is borrowed; a lender.

* 2010 , G. C. Gregory, Ghost of the Snowlands (page 90)

Around here, when a man borrows something, he should promptly return it without the borrowee having to ask.