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

The English language comprises a hodgepodge of words borrowed from all over the globe, and a wide variety of those loanwords hail from the languages of India. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026

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

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