peregrine

Plural: peregrines

Noun

• a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry
• The peregrine falcon.
• A foreigner; a person resident in a country other than his or her own.

Adjective Satellite

• migratory
  • "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"

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.

Examples

• The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.

Synonyms

Falco peregrinus, mobile, nomadic, peregrine falcon, roving, wandering, alien, foreigner, outlander, strangeling

Related Words

peregrinate, peregrination, peregrine hawk

Anagrams of peregrine