loan-word

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.
Also, loan word.
Also called loan.


Origin:
1870–75; translation of German Lehnwort

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loanword

noun
a word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English 
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Loan-word is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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