False friend

noun

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.nounA word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.

"A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart."

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