English Explanatory Dictionary

xenism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word used in utterances of a language but generally marked as foreign.

Word forms

xenism xenisms

Etymology

Borrowed from French xénisme, from Ancient Greek ξενισμός (xenismós, “strangeness, novelty”).

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