Wastrel: Definition and part of speech

Wastrel

  1. n. Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc.
  2. n. Any waste thing or substance
  3. n. Waste land or common land.
  4. n. A profligate.
  5. n. A neglected child; a street Arab.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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