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borrowed word

noun as in loan word

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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.

Or was this a reflection of plyuralizm, a borrowed word slipping awkwardly off Russian tongues.

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.

"Ulli" is not a borrowed word, but the genuine Aztec name for India-rubber, which was used to make playing-balls with, long before the time of Columbus.

Hemp probably became known to the Italians at a still later period than flax; at least -cannabis- looks quite like a borrowed word of later date.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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