borrowed word
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When they do this often enough, the borrowed word "becomes part of their vocabulary", OED said.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025
The borrowed word democracy has since been assimilated into Burmese and is even in the name of the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy.
From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2015
Or was this a reflection of plyuralizm, a borrowed word slipping awkwardly off Russian tongues.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.
From Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals by Mitchell, Maria
Reiter was confused with, and supplanted by, this borrowed word Reuter, which was taken to mean rider, and we find the cavalry called Reuterei well into the eighteenth century.
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
