"mortgage" meaning in English

See mortgage in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɔː.ɡɪdʒ/ [UK], /ˈmɔr.ɡɪdʒ/ [US] Audio: en-us-mortgage.ogg [US] Forms: mortgage [singular], mortgages [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A mortgage is a loan for the purpose of paying for a house, apartment, building, etc.
    Sense id: simple-mortgage-en-noun-6PXLD7Oo

Verb

IPA: /ˈmɔː.ɡɪdʒ/ [UK], /ˈmɔr.ɡɪdʒ/ [US] Audio: en-us-mortgage.ogg [US] Forms: mortgage [canonical], mortgages [third-person, singular], mortgaged [past], mortgaged [past, participle], mortgaging [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb|mortgag|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you mortgage your home, you borrow money and promise to give up your home if you can't pay back the money.
    Sense id: simple-mortgage-en-verb-LHbAC58K
  2. If you mortgage your future, you enjoy something now even though it will cause problems in the future.
    Sense id: simple-mortgage-en-verb-~3gRAaa-
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mortgage",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "mort‧gage",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For five-year adjustable-rate mortgages, interest rates rose to 5.58 percent."
        },
        {
          "text": "They can't refinance because the mortgage is higher than the real value of their home."
        },
        {
          "text": "Unlike traditional 30-year fixed mortgages, these loans are often adjustable."
        },
        {
          "text": "Credit card, auto loan, and mortgage lenders, along with bankers, are being much more careful about their borrowers."
        },
        {
          "text": "By November she had missed two of the monthly mortgage payments on the three-bedroom home."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mortgage is a loan for the purpose of paying for a house, apartment, building, etc."
      ],
      "id": "simple-mortgage-en-noun-6PXLD7Oo",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔː.ɡɪdʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔr.ɡɪdʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-mortgage.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mortgage"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mortgage",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgages",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgaged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgaged",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgaging",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mortgag",
        "2": "e"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "mort‧gage",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Henderson's parents mortgaged their house in Cuthbert to buy a piano for the front parlor."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you mortgage your home, you borrow money and promise to give up your home if you can't pay back the money."
      ],
      "id": "simple-mortgage-en-verb-LHbAC58K",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We're mortgaging our children's future instead of investing in it."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you mortgage your future, you enjoy something now even though it will cause problems in the future."
      ],
      "id": "simple-mortgage-en-verb-~3gRAaa-",
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔː.ɡɪdʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔr.ɡɪdʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-mortgage.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mortgage"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mortgage",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "mort‧gage",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "For five-year adjustable-rate mortgages, interest rates rose to 5.58 percent."
        },
        {
          "text": "They can't refinance because the mortgage is higher than the real value of their home."
        },
        {
          "text": "Unlike traditional 30-year fixed mortgages, these loans are often adjustable."
        },
        {
          "text": "Credit card, auto loan, and mortgage lenders, along with bankers, are being much more careful about their borrowers."
        },
        {
          "text": "By November she had missed two of the monthly mortgage payments on the three-bedroom home."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mortgage is a loan for the purpose of paying for a house, apartment, building, etc."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔː.ɡɪdʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔr.ɡɪdʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-mortgage.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mortgage"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mortgage",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgages",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgaged",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgaged",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortgaging",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mortgag",
        "2": "e"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "mort‧gage",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Henderson's parents mortgaged their house in Cuthbert to buy a piano for the front parlor."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you mortgage your home, you borrow money and promise to give up your home if you can't pay back the money."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We're mortgaging our children's future instead of investing in it."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you mortgage your future, you enjoy something now even though it will cause problems in the future."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔː.ɡɪdʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔr.ɡɪdʒ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-mortgage.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mortgage"
}

Download raw JSONL data for mortgage meaning in English (2.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-11 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (f90d964 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.