gamin

1. 1.

   (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets

   Synonymsstreet arabthrowaway

   Broaderstreet urchin

   disparagement

Other forms of gamin

plural

gamins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gamin

What does gamin mean?

gamin means "(sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets".

How many syllables are in gamin?

gamin has 2 syllables: ga-min. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for gamin?

Close synonyms include street arab, throwaway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gamin a common word?

gamin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.