peregrine
[per-i-grin, -green, -grahyn]
adjective
foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
wandering, traveling, or migrating.
noun
RELATED WORDS
peripatetic, wandering, itinerant, alluring, glamorous, romantic, colorful, unusual, unfamiliar, peculiar, alien, strange, curious, weird, bizarre, fascinating, different, mobile, roaming, vagrant
Nearby words
- perdure,
- pere,
- perea,
- peregrinate,
- peregrination,
- peregrine falcon,
- pereion,
- pereiopod,
- pereira,
- pereira bark
Origin of peregrine
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peregrine
adjective archaic
Word Origin for peregrine
C14: from Latin peregrīnus foreign, from pereger being abroad, from per through + ager land (that is, beyond one's own land)
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peregrine
also peregrin, type of falcon, 1550s, short for peregrine falcon (late 14c.), from Old French faulcon pelerin (mid-13c.), from Medieval Latin falco peregrinus, from Latin peregrinus "coming from foreign parts" (see peregrination). Sense may have been a bird "caught in transit," as opposed to one taken from the nest. Peregrine as an adjective in English meaning "not native, foreign" is attested from 1520s.
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