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For instance, people, a French loanword, may be spelled peple, pepill, poeple, or poepul.
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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
And so the language planners, led by linguist Ari Páll Kristinsson, are working furiously to match every English word or concept with an Icelandic one—giving young Icelanders no excuse for depending on loanwords learned online.
—Caitlin Hu, Quartz, 2 June 2019
Each provided loanwords, words adopted from a donor language without translation.
—Courtney Linder, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loanword
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These neologisms weren’t just clever.—
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Podcasts, newsletters, and Words of the Year have popularized neologisms, etymologies, and usage trends.—
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This book is a deeply scholarly, policy-relevant history of money, from the advent of coinage, paper currency, and bank money in ancient, medieval, and early modern times to the stablecoins and central bank digital currencies of today and tomorrow.—
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The retailer has posted signs requesting exact coinage.—
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Her vetting crusades have brought about a new Washington colloquialism.—
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The show chugged along nonetheless, gradually attracting fans who adored its stark cinematography and weirdo colloquialisms.—
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Everything else is a euphemism for old fashioned domination that the region has spent generations trying to escape.—
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In a year of cancellations and euphemisms, the city mounted a counterprogram that was quietly insurrectionary, stubbornly joyous.—
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De Caché is a Spanish language term meaning high end or classy, general manager Oscar Escobar said.—
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Trump hasn’t used the act – which has only been invoked a handful of times in recent decades to suppress rioting – in either of his terms, but Walz expressed concern Wednesday that Minneapolis could be the tipping point if people protesting the shooting become violent.—
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Having co-founded Random House in 1927 Cerf was largely responsible for bringing modernism to the masses, putting the likes of Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and William Faulkner in front of millions of American readers.—
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Leisure readers, offers a welcome taste of nostalgia in an era of hospitality when sleek modernism is the ethos du jour.—
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“Loanword.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loanword. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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