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semantic loans

semantic loans is the plural of semantic loan.

Meaning of semantic loan

Noun

semantic loan (plural semantic loans)

  1. A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.
    Synonyms:
    semantic calque

Questions about semantic loans

What is semantic loans the plural of?
Semantic loans is the plural of semantic loan.

Words near semantic loans in the dictionary

  1. semantic field
  2. semantic fields
  3. semantic layer
  4. semantic layers
  5. semantic loan
  6. semantic loans
  7. semantic memory
  8. semantic net
  9. semantic nets
  10. semantic network
  11. semantic networks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semantic loans (page history and authors); semantic loan (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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