英语词汇“foundling”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

foundling

/ˈfaʊndlɪŋ

noun

An infant that has been abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others.The hospital was the parent of all foundlings admitted until they reached the age of 21, overseers and other local officials having no power in the hospital....

One of the most graphic indicators of the growth in poverty was the rise in the number of foundlings and abandoned children.
Ginger Rogers plays a department store clerk who is mistakenly identified as the mother of an infant foundling.

Synonyms

abandoned infant, waif, stray, orphan, outcast;

French enfant trouvé

archaic wastrel

Origin

Middle English: from found¹ (past participle) + -ling, perhaps on the pattern of Dutch vondeling.

单词	foundling
释义	foundling /ˈfaʊndlɪŋ / noun An infant that has been abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others.The hospital was the parent of all foundlings admitted until they reached the age of 21, overseers and other local officials having no power in the hospital.... One of the most graphic indicators of the growth in poverty was the rise in the number of foundlings and abandoned children. Ginger Rogers plays a department store clerk who is mistakenly identified as the mother of an infant foundling. Synonyms abandoned infant, waif, stray, orphan, outcast; French enfant trouvé archaic wastrel Origin Middle English: from found¹ (past participle) + -ling, perhaps on the pattern of Dutch vondeling. Rhymes groundling
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foundling

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