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発音

• IPA: /ˈpɛɹəɡɹin/, /ˈpɛɹəɡɹɪn/

形容詞

peregrine (comparative more peregrine, superlative most peregrine)

1. Wandering, travelling, migratory.

   The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.

2. Not native to a region or country; foreign; alien.
3. (astrology, of a planet) Lacking essential debility.
4. Extrinsic or from without; exotic.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     peregrine and preternatural heat

   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:

     As soon as she had smiled her face altered again, and the petulant expression peregrine to her features took control.

5. With "tone" Referring to the tonus peregrinus or 'wandering tone' in ecclesiastical chant and mode theory.

派生語

名詞

peregrine (plural peregrines)

1. The peregrine falcon.
2. (dated) A foreigner; a person resident in a country other than his or her own.

同意語

• (foreigner): alien, outlander, strangeling; see also Thesaurus:foreigner

関連する語

• peregrine hawk
• peregrinate
• peregrination