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    LOANWORD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A word borrowed from another language; e.g. 'blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern Englishplay

    Synonyms:

    loan; loanword

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("loanword" is a kind of...):

    word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "loanword"):

    Latinism (a word or phrase borrowed from Latin)

    Gallicism (a word or phrase borrowed from French)

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