ABANDONED PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abandoned person mean? 

• ABANDONED PERSON (noun)
  The noun ABANDONED PERSON has 1 sense:

1. someone for whom hope has been abandoned

  Familiarity information: ABANDONED PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABANDONED PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone for whom hope has been abandoned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("abandoned person" is a kind of...):

unfortunate; unfortunate person (a person who suffers misfortune)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abandoned person"):

castaway; shipwreck survivor (a shipwrecked person)