street child

1. 1.

   a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

   “street children beg or steal in order to survive”

   Synonymswaif

   Broaderchild

Questions about street child

What does street child mean?

street child means "a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned".

What is another word for street child?

Close synonyms include waif. 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 street child a common word?

street child 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.