Borrowed

/ˈbɒɹəʊd/

Synonyms for "borrowed" (28 found)

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Closest matches (6)

Verb(2 words)
Noun(2 words)
borrowingcultural transplant
Adjective(1 words)
derivative group

Strong matches (8)

Adjective(2 words)
derived formimported term
Noun(4 words)
derived fromforeign-language vocabularyfrappéheller
Verb(2 words)

Related words (14)

Verb(9 words)
incorporateinfluencedlentloanedobtain temporarilypilferedplagiarizedtake on loanuse temporarily
Noun(4 words)
linguistic borrowingmachopiggybackingswedish skrapa

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

6 entries
acquirelanguage changelinguistic featurelinguistic processownership statustake

More specific

10 entries
book borrowingborrowed bookborrowed equipmentborrowed moneyborrowed toolcalquecalque usageloanwordloanword formationmoney borrowing

Collocations

9 entries
borrow a bookborrow moneyborrowed bookborrowed capitalborrowed equipmentborrowed moneyborrowed timecultural borrowinglexical borrowing

Inflections

4 entries
borrowingborrowsmore borrowedmost borrowed

Derivations

6 entries

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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English words are often borrowed by other languages.

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I borrowed money not only from Tom, but from his wife, too.

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It has a great many words borrowed from foreign languages.

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I borrowed the screwdriver from a friend of mine.

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