borrowing

Other forms of borrowing

plural

borrowings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about borrowing

What does borrowing mean?

borrowing means "the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in borrowing?

borrowing has 3 syllables: bor-ro-wing. The stress falls on "bor". In IPA it is /ˈbɑɹoʊɪŋ/.

What is another word for borrowing?

Close synonyms include adoption. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is borrowing a common word?

borrowing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.