waif

Denizione di  waif - dizionario di inglese del sito grammaticainglese.org - definizione traduzione e spiegazione grammaticale

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Definizione monolingua


waif


Noun

waif (plural waifs)


  1. (obsolete) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.
  2. (obsolete) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
  3. A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
    • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
      Tenderly Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it did not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of other mothers. It was nearly a year from the time the little fellow came into her possession before he would walk alone, and as for climbing--my, but how stupid he was!

Definizione dizionario waif


bambino abbandonato
trovatello

Altri significati:
  A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.
  (obsolete) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
  (obsolete) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.

Traduzione waif


bambino abbandonato ,trovatello

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