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LOANWORD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
Synonyms:
loan; loanword
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("loanword" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loanword"):
Latinism (a word or phrase borrowed from Latin)
Gallicism (a word or phrase borrowed from French)
