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semantic borrowings

semantic borrowings is the plural of semantic borrowing.

Meaning of semantic borrowing

Noun

semantic borrowing (plural semantic borrowings)

  1. the hypernym for loan meanings, also known as semantic loans, and loan formations.

Questions about semantic borrowings

What is semantic borrowings the plural of?
Semantic borrowings is the plural of semantic borrowing.

Words near semantic borrowings in the dictionary

  1. semantic analyses
  2. semantic analysis
  3. semantic bleaching
  4. semantic bleachings
  5. semantic borrowing
  6. semantic borrowings
  7. semantic calque
  8. semantic calques
  9. semantic change
  10. semantic changes
  11. semantic differentiation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semantic borrowings (page history and authors); semantic borrowing (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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