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Waif

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Noun

1. street child, waif

a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

Example Sentences:
'street children beg or steal in order to survive'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Waif

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noun
1. 
a person, esp a child, who is homeless, friendless, or neglected
2. 
anything found and not claimed, the owner being unknown
3. nautical another name for waft (sense 5)
4. law obsolete
a stolen article thrown away by a thief during flight and forfeited to the Crown or to the lord of the manor

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Waif

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noun
1. 
anything found by chance that is without an owner
2. 
a person without home or friends; esp., a homeless child
3. 
a stray animal
4. 
waft (sense 9)
5.  Law
a. 
a piece of property found but claimed by nobody
b.  [pl.]; Obsolete
stolen goods discarded by a thief in flight

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Waif

see synonyms of waif
n.
1.
a. A homeless person, especially a forsaken or orphaned child.
b. An abandoned young animal.
2. A person, especially a young woman, who is thin or gaunt.
3. Something found and unclaimed, as an object cast up by the sea.
n.
Nautical
See waft.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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