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GALLICISM

Dictionary entry overview: What does Gallicism mean?

• GALLICISM (noun)
The noun GALLICISM has 1 sense:

1. a word or phrase borrowed from French

Familiarity information: GALLICISM used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GALLICISM (noun)

Sense 1

Gallicism ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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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