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 ● Sep. 26, 2021
Schadenfreude, a German loan word, translates to "pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune."
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
Often an English loan word becomes the starting point — and in many cases the endpoint.
From The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] by Marie Lebert
