loanword
or loan word
[ lohn-wurd ]
noun
a word in one language that has been borrowed from another language and usually naturalized, as wine, taken into Old English from Latin vinum, or macho, taken into Modern English from Spanish.
Origin of loanword
11870–75; translation of German Lehnwort
- Also called loan.
Words Nearby loanword
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How to use loanword in a sentence
It has, consequently, in not a few cases, been difficult to decide whether a word is a loanword or not.
Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch | George Tobias Flom
British Dictionary definitions for loan word
loan word
noun
a word adopted, often with some modification of its form, from one language into another
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