loan word

NOUN

word borrowed from another language

Synonyms

WEAK

borrowed word borrowing calque imported word loan translation neology paronym

Example Sentences

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Schadenfreude, a German loan word, translates to "pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune."

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2021

Though its status as a loan word might lead one to believe it is an uncommon emotion, that's not true in this case.

From Salon • Sep. 26, 2021

But I must not allow you to completely erase “shampoo,” a beautiful loan word from Hindi.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2018

As an English loan word, it continued to broaden its utility, describing the elusive degrees of difference in just about anything.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2018

Line 18 of the passage shoves that aṣammu is a Sumerian loan word.

From An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Jastrow, Morris