noun, plural ferries. 1. a commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water. 2. a ferryboat.
Examples and related terms. A loanword is distinguished from a calque (loan translation), which is a word or phrase whose meaning or idiom is adopted from another language by translation into existing words or word-forming roots of the recipient language.
Definition of diatribe. 1  1 archaic : a prolonged discourse. 2  2 : a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing. 3  3 : ironic or satirical criticism.