street urchin

1. 1.

   a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas

   Synonymsguttersnipe

   Broaderurchin

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Questions about street urchin

What does street urchin mean?

street urchin means "a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas".

What is another word for street urchin?

Close synonyms include guttersnipe. 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 urchin a common word?

street urchin 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.