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Meanings of foreign word in English
Spanish
palabra extranjera Loanword that has not been adapted to the new language in terms of pronunciation, spelling, or grammar - concept and term not used in most languages; called Fremdwort in German.
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Examples for "barbarism"
Examples for "barbarism"
1
They have simply grown and developed in the natural plane of barbarism.
2
The boasted progress of civilization is dissolved in the barbarism of war.
3
Capital punishment exists at a paradoxical junction point of civilisation and barbarism.
4
But in the century succeeding his death the country relapsed into barbarism.
5
Feudality was the natural first step of a people emerging from barbarism.
Usage of foreign word in English
1
Madonna is a foreign word and means a beautiful girl, doesn't it?
2
Gibbons flinched at the foreign word, then squinted as if he hadn't understood.
3
The man twisted away and yelled some fancy foreign word.
4
Stefan didn't know it, but she understood every foreign word he spoke to impress her.
5
Use a foreign word if it has no English equivalent, not otherwise unless it has become Anglicized.
6
Stint is a foreign word to most naval men, and Christmas-tide is a demonstration of this fact.
7
A purely spiritual matter. Obviously this was a foreign word for him, he maintained an icy silence.
8
CHATON This is another fantastic example of a foreign word that sounds cute but doesn't make any sense.
9
If, telephoning in France, you use a single foreign word, even an English one, your wire is cut.
10
Matt Larson sprang to his feet, spitting out a strange foreign word that boded no good to the intruder.
11
It's probably a foreign word.
12
These are schools for foremen, or, if we may use a foreign word like Kindergarten, they are Meisterschaft schools.
13
In learning the pronunciation of a foreign word, for example, see that your first pronunciation of it is absolutely right.
14
The first foreign word I have learned is "Alohaoe", I think it means "my dearest love to you."
15
That is a very obscure word, to which I can only apply my old notion and declare that kakon is a foreign word.
16
If a would-be eloquent lawyer mispronounced a foreign word, saying, for instance, "factitious" instead of "fictitious," Pyotr Dmitritch brightened up at once and asked, "What?
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