imported word
Example Sentences
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As one English speaker noted on Twitter, the imported word could be seen as a thank you to the German language.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2018
An American with a sense of the poetic cannot but prefer to the imported word autumn the native and more logical word fall, which the British have strangely suffered to drop into disuse.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Matthews, Brander
What actual necessity can there have been for so invidiously employing an imported word, when the French equivalent was already firmly established as a particle of abuse?
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian
