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Peregrine

//ˈpɛɹəɡɹin// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Wandering, travelling, migratory.

    "The Romani are perpetually peregrine people."

  2. 2
    Not native to a region or country; foreign; alien.
  3. 3
    Lacking essential debility.
  4. 4
    Extrinsic or from without; exotic.

    "peregrine and preternatural heat"

  5. 5
    With "tone" Referring to the tonus peregrinus or 'wandering tone' in ecclesiastical chant and mode theory.
Adjective
  1. 1
    migratory wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 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."

Noun
  1. 1
    The peregrine falcon.
  2. 2
    a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry wordnet
  3. 3
    A foreigner; a person resident in a country other than his or her own. dated

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

Saint's name from Latin Peregrinus, from peregrinus (“foreigner”).

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