GALLICISM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A word or phrase borrowed from French

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

loan; loanword (a word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English)

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