peregrine
Meanings
adj
- Wandering, travelling, migratory.
- Not native to a region or country; foreign; alien.
- Lacking essential debility.
- Extrinsic or from without; exotic.
- With "tone" Referring to the tonus peregrinus or 'wandering tone' in ecclesiastical chant and mode theory.
noun
- The peregrine falcon.
- A foreigner; a person resident in a country other than his or her own.
name
- A male given name from Latin; and of mostly British usage.
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Etymology
From Middle English peregrin, borrowed from Old French peregrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreign”). Doublet of pilgrim.
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