STREET CHILD (street children)

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Irregular inflected form: street children   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does street child mean? 

• STREET CHILD (noun)
  The noun STREET CHILD has 1 sense:

1. a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

  Familiarity information: STREET CHILD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREET CHILD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

street child; waif

Context example:

street children beg or steal in order to survive

Hypernyms ("street child" is a kind of...):

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster (a young person of either sex)