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Pronunciation: [bˈɒɹə͡ʊɪŋz] (IPA)

Borrowings are an essential part of the English language. They are words that come from other languages and have been adopted into English. Synonyms for the word borrowings include loanwords, lexical borrowings, lexical loans, foreign words, and borrowed words. Loanwords are words that have been borrowed from other languages, while lexical borrowings refer to the borrowing of words or phrases from foreign languages. Lexical loans are similar to lexical borrowings, but they are often used in technical or scientific terms. Foreign words and borrowed words are self-explanatory and refer to words originating from other languages. Regardless of which term is used, borrowings enrich the English language and demonstrate its dynamic and ever-changing nature.

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Usage examples for Borrowings

Or, rather, a multiplicity of languages, each derived partly from the native language of the various scientific groups and partly of borrowings from other languages.
"The Foreign Hand Tie"
Gordon Randall Garrett
Such borrowings take place coram populo, and are in the nature of a public homage.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
We must not be deceived by mere borrowings of exotic things or momentary appreciations of foreign luxuries.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth

Famous quotes with Borrowings

  • The modern world is still suffering from the native incapacity of the Jews to be political. The art of making and preserving a City, which we call be the Greek name, “Politics,” was never an indigenous growth among the Hebrews. The City of the Greeks and the other civilized nations of antiquity was hateful to them. Their ideas were essentially anti-political. The politics of Judaea, when there were any, were borrowed from the Egyptians and Babylonians and, later, from the Greeks. These borrowings were regarded with violent disapproval by the champions of Hebrew orthodoxy, who objected to organized civilization on two grounds. Some, like Amos, hated it just because it was civilization and not nomadic barbarism. It was in the desert that God had made his covenant with the Chosen Race, and in the desert there was nothing else to think about but God. So, Back to the Desert! was their war-cry. Others, the Ebionites, objected to civilization because it was hierarchical, because it made for social inequality. They gave prophetically indignant utterance to the envious hatred of the poor in cash and in spirit against the rich and talented and cultured. A pious and universal mediocrity was their ideal.
    Aldous Huxley

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