English Explanatory Dictionary

loan meaning

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A meaning that has been borrowed from a word in another language, through a process of semantic loan.

Word forms

loan meaning loan meanings

Etymology

From loan + meaning. Calque of German Lehnbedeutung.

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