Meaning of Lombard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century.
   historical
2. A Romance language spoken in northern Italy and southern Switzerland.
   countable, uncountable
3. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.
4. A surname originating as an ethnonym.
   countable
5. A banker or moneylender.
   rare
6. A ghost town in Broadwater County, Montana, United States, named after A. G. Lombard.
   countable, uncountable
7. A Lombard house.
   obsolete
8. A kind of Spanish cannon of the 16th century.
   historical

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Examples

“a Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns”

“To oppose this , a wooden fortress of the same height was constructed by the assailants , and planted with lombards and other pieces of artillery then in use”

“As the Pinta's lookout sighted land on the early morn of October 12, 1492, the firing of a lombard carried the news over the moonlit waters to the flagship Santa Maria.”

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