street urchin

Questions about street urchin

What is another word for street urchin?

It depends which street urchin you mean. In the sense “a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas”, the synonyms are guttersnipe. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of street urchin?

WordNet records no antonym for street urchin. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for street urchin come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of street urchin

• Full entry for street urchinAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for street urchinWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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