peregrine

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈpɛɹəɡɹin/
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/ˈpɛɹəɡɹin/ · /ˈpɛɹəɡɹɪn/

Definition of peregrine

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Wandering, travelling, migratory.
    “The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.”
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adj

  1. Wandering, travelling, migratory.
    “The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.”
  2. Not native to a region or country; foreign; alien.
  3. Lacking essential debility.
  4. Extrinsic or from without; exotic.
    “peregrine and preternatural heat”
    “As soon as she had smiled her face altered again, and the petulant expression peregrine to her features took control.”
  5. With "tone" Referring to the tonus peregrinus or 'wandering tone' in ecclesiastical chant and mode theory.

noun

  1. The peregrine falcon.
  2. (dated)A foreigner; a person resident in a country other than his or her own.

name

  1. A male given name from Latin; and of mostly British usage.
    “Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. / "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - - / Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" / "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English peregrin, borrowed from Old French peregrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreign”). Doublet of pilgrim.

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