loan word
Example Sentences
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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
Schadenfreude, a German loan word, translates to "pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune."
From Salon
But I must not allow you to completely erase “shampoo,” a beautiful loan word from Hindi.
From New York Times
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
Shifts in meaning Sometimes a loan word has come to have a more specific or more general meaning, or has come to refer to a related thing.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
