loan meaning

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Etymology[edit]

loan +‎ meaning. Calque of German Lehnbedeutung.

Noun[edit]

loan meaning (plural loan meanings)

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

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