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peregrine

[ per-i-grin, -green, -grahyn ]

adjective

  1. foreign; alien; coming from abroad.
  2. wandering, traveling, or migrating.


peregrine

/ ˈpɛrɪɡrɪn /

adjective

  1. coming from abroad
  2. travelling or migratory; wandering
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • per·e·grin·i·ty [per-i-, grin, -i-tee], noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of peregrine1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin peregrīnus foreign, derivative of peregrē abroad, literally, through (i.e., beyond the borders of ) the field, equivalent to per- per- + -egr-, combining form of ager field + adv. suffix; -ine 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of peregrine1

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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Example Sentences

More than 6,000 captive-bred peregrine falcons were reintroduced between 1974 and 1997 in 34 states.

Maryland and Virginia now have over 50 pairs of “successfully breeding” peregrine falcons, according to wildlife experts.

For the first time in almost 70 years, a peregrine falcon chick has hatched and is learning to fly at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, part of a national comeback story for a species that had largely disappeared in the wild.

The research came out of a multiyear process of tagging and tracking individual peregrines, which make the month-long trips solo.

Some of those populations breed high in the Arctic tundra, and individual peregrines fly for thousands of miles and across multiple continents to nest on cliff banks along Arctic rivers.

Hero Peregrine – Actress Cree Summer gave this name to her daughter, who joined sister Brave Littlewing.

About a year ago, Peregrine Financial CEO Russell Wasendorf Sr. was found attempting to kill himself in his car.

The boy was sent to a private school of a high character, and Sir Peregrine was sure that he had been so sent at his own advice.

And with these views he returned home—while Peregrine Orme at Oxford was still addicted to the hunting of rats.

Sir Peregrine himself at this time was an old man, having passed his seventieth year.

Young timber also throve well about the place, and in this respect Sir Peregrine was a careful landlord.

After that such a man or woman might as well spare all speech as regards the hope of any effect on the mind of Sir Peregrine Orme.

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