borrowing
English
Noun
borrowing (countable and uncountable, plural borrowings)
- An instance of something being borrowed.
- Horace Binney
- Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
- Horace Binney
- (linguistics) A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
Related terms
Translations
loanword — see loanword
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