Definition of "Lombard"

Lombard

/ˈlɒmbɑːd/

noun
plural Lombards
1. (historical) A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century.
2. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy.
3. (rare) A banker or moneylender.
4. (obsolete) A Lombard house.
  Quotations
  a Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawnsThe spelling has been modernized.
  1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837
5. (military, historical) A kind of Spanish cannon of the 16th century.
proper noun
countable and uncountable, plural Lombards
1. A Romance language spoken in northern Italy and southern Switzerland.
2. (countable) A surname.
3. A ghost town in Broadwater County, Montana, United States, named after A. G. Lombard.
adjective
comparative more Lombard, superlative most Lombard
1. Of or relating to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.