LOANWORD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

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)