anglicism

noun

an·gli·cism ˈaŋ-glə-ˌsi-zəm

often capitalized

: a characteristic feature of English occurring in another language

: adherence or attachment to English customs or ideas

Examples of anglicism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Among the roughly 800,000 words in the typical Italian dictionary, there are around 9,000 anglicisms, or 1.1% of the total. —

Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2023

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