SHYLOCK

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• SHYLOCK (noun)
  The noun SHYLOCK has 2 senses:

1. someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest

2. a merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare

  Familiarity information: SHYLOCK used as a noun is rare.

• SHYLOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

loan shark; moneylender; shylock; usurer

Hypernyms ("shylock" is a kind of...):

lender; loaner (someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters)

shark (a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A merciless usurer in a play by Shakespeare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

If it was fair, that was in the bond, and I stand to the letter of my bond, Shylock.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I really believe, said he, I could be fool enough at this moment to undertake any character that ever was written, from Shylock or Richard III down to the singing hero of a farce in his scarlet coat and cocked hat.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)