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semantic loan (plural semantic loans)
- (linguistics) A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.
- Synonym: semantic calque
- Hypernym: semantic borrowing
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