loanword English

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loanword Noun

— A loanword is a word in one language that comes from another language. "Tsunami" is a Japanese word, but is a loan word in English. Most languages have some loanwords. There are many loanwords in English.

loanword

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

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loanword English » English

loan word

loan

borrowing

borrowed word

foreignism

adopted word