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calquers

calquers is the plural of calquer.

Meaning of calquer

Noun

calquer (plural calquers)

  1. One who calques.
    • This term became popular from the late 1960s onwards, languages being neatly divided between borrowers and calquers.2002, Manfred Görlach, Still More Englishes, page 144

Questions about calquers

What is calquers the plural of?
Calquers is the plural of calquer.

Words near calquers in the dictionary

  1. calpultin
  2. Calpurnian
  3. calque
  4. calqued
  5. calquer
  6. calquers
  7. calques
  8. calquing
  9. calquings
  10. CALR
  11. CALRAB

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