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semantic loan (plural semantic loans)

  1. (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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