waif
Meaning of waif
noun
- A castaway; a homeless child.
- (of a plant outside its native range) A plant that has been introduced but is not persistently naturalized.
- 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.
- Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
Information about waif
- It is a name.
- The plural form of waif is: waifs.
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Hyphenation of waif
waif
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- waif is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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