lending library

noun

: a library from which materials are lent

especially : rental library

Examples of lending library in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On the right, there’s an inviting seating nook and the hallway with a lending library—guests can borrow a book or leave behind one they’re finished with—that leads to the elevators. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2026

The store’s official history still frames that first shop as half bookstore, half lending library, and as the place from which Beach published James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922 when others would not. —Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2026

Thor’s books may have entered a porch lending library of their own by now. —Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026

The center will be a cultural hub of different organizations occupying the space and other developing ideas, such as a performance space, workshops on leadership for underrepresented communities and a tool lending library for community projects. —Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1708, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for lending library

• accretionary
• apothecary
• bicentenary
• certiorari
• concessionary
• concretionary
• confectionary
• confectionery
• constabulary
• contemporary
• deflationary
• depositary