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loan word
noun
- a word adopted, often with some modification of its form, from one language into another
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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.
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Schadenfreude, a German loan word, translates to "pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune."
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But I must not allow you to completely erase “shampoo,†a beautiful loan word from Hindi.
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As an English loan word, it continued to broaden its utility, describing the elusive degrees of difference in just about anything.
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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.
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