noun
definition
A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.
example
The word exit is a loanword from Latin.
Examples of loanwords in a Sentence
This Old Coptic, as it is termed, was still almost entirely free from Greek loanwords, and its strong archaisms are doubtless accounted for by the literary language, even in its most vulgar forms, having moved more slowly than the speech of the people.
With [t] and [d ], fortunately, there are English loanwords in Japanese which may provide a model.
How has it been possible to multiply the stock of german loanwords in English?
This etymological study of Sumerian is attended with incalculable difficulties, because nearly all the Sumerian texts which we possess are written in an idiom which is quite evidently under the influence of Semitic. With the exception of some very ancient texts, the Sumerian literature, consisting largely of religious material such as hymns and incantations, shows a number of Semitic loanwords and grammatical Semitisms, and in many cases, although not always, is quite patently a translation of Semitic ideas by Semitic priests into the formal religious Sumerian language.