Aval

Borrowing from fr aval.

Full definition of aval

Noun

1. (finance) A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.

From Latin avus ("grandfather").

Adjective

1. (rare) Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.
• 1973, Wilfred T. Neill, Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Columbia University Press (1973), ISBN 0231035470, page 299:Sosrodihardjo found it hard to support his children, and the young Sukarno was sent to stay with his grandmother Believing that the boy had supernatural powers of healing, she put him to licking the afflicted parts of ailing villagers, and decided that he would be a clairvoyant. But alas for aval ambitions; Sukarno turned out to be a visionary of quite a different sort.

Synonyms

• grandparental

Hyponyms

• (grandfather) grandfatherly, grandpaternal
• (grandmother) grandmaternal, grandmotherly

Anagrams

• lava