Synonyms of loanword

loanword

noun

as in neologism

Related Words

• neologism
• coinage
• colloquialism
• euphemism
• term
• modernism
• morpheme
• monosyllable
• expression
• word
• vernacularism
• linguistic form
• phrase
• idiom
• speech form
• collocation
• locution
• polysyllable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of loanword

Which brings us to the ménage à trois — for some things, only a French loanword will do — between Hayley, Yasmin, and Henry, which exists at the opposite end of the boundary-setting spectrum. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2026

For instance, people, a French loanword, may be spelled peple, pepill, poeple, or poepul. — Big Think, 10 Apr. 2025

The newest dictionary additions include loanwords from Southeast Asia, South Africa and Ireland. — Peter Guo, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2025

In fact, Mandarin itself used thousands of loanwords from Japanese and English when new disciplines such as sociology and natural science entered China’s curricula a mere century ago. — Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 28 Nov. 2023

During this period, more than 10,000 loanwords from French entered the English language, mostly in domains where the aristocracy held sway: the arts, military, medicine, law and religion. — Phillip M. Carter, Fortune Well, 12 June 2023

Most English loanwords borrow from languages that, like English, use the Latin alphabet. — Sarah Bunin Benor, The Conversation, 21 May 2020

With the mega-success of Starbucks and its various coffee competitors, BARISTA has transformed from a somewhat niche Italian loanword to a term most everyone not only knows but uses regularly. — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019