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LOANWORD

Dictionary entry overview: What does loanword mean?

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

1. a word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English

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

Dictionary entry details

• LOANWORD (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

loanword; loan

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)

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