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ABANDONED PERSON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does abandoned person mean?
• ABANDONED PERSON (noun)
The noun ABANDONED PERSON has 1 sense:
1. someone for whom hope has been abandoned
Familiarity information: ABANDONED PERSON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone for whom hope has been abandoned
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("abandoned person" is a kind of...):
unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abandoned person"):
castaway; shipwreck survivor (a shipwrecked person)
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