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waif

noun

1 waif

A homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned.

synonym: street child.

Roget 618: good, benefit, advantage; improvement etc. 658; greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main chance, ... show more

Roget 782: relinquishment, abandonment etc. (of a course) 624; renunciation, expropriation, dereliction; cession, surrender, dispensation; quitclaim deed; resignation ... show more

Dutch: zwerver
Polish: dziecko ulicy


Moby thesaurus: Arab, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, bum, bummer, castaway, castoff, derelict, discard, dogie, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, foundling, gamin, gamine, guttersnipe, hobo, homeless waif ... show more.

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