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loanwords

loanwords is the plural of loanword.

Meaning of loanword

Noun

loanword (plural loanwords)

  1. A word directly taken into one language from another one.
    • "Calque" is a loanword with French origins, and "loanword" is a calque with German origins.
    Synonyms:
    borrowing, foreign word, gainword

Phrases with loanwords

Questions about loanwords

What is loanwords the plural of?
Loanwords is the plural of loanword.

Words near loanwords in the dictionary

  1. loanshift
  2. loanshifted
  3. loanshifting
  4. loanshifts
  5. loanword
  6. loanwords
  7. loanworthy
  8. Loar
  9. Loarki
  10. Loars
  11. loas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loanwords (page history and authors); loanword (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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