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Definition of foundling in English: foundlingnoun ˈfaʊndlɪŋˈfaʊndlɪŋ An infant that has been abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others. 弃婴，弃儿 Example sentencesExamples - The fate of the foundling still depends starkly on where it is born.
- The camp was built exclusively for summer use, with no heating, and the foundlings nearly froze as they camped out.
- One of the most graphic indicators of the growth in poverty was the rise in the number of foundlings and abandoned children.
- He fostered many of the hospital foundlings and donated numerous paintings to the hospital's collection, establishing a permanent picture gallery.
- For it goes without saying that ‘every child, even a foundling, is reputed to be the son of a father’.
- What has changed is that today such foundlings are not bound for a life in the workhouse or orphanage, but often face a more secure future than if they had stayed with their natural mothers.
- Thus an elaborate plan was hatched, making it appear that the baby, born in 1922, was a foundling.
- Lastly, the deserving poor, including foundlings, orphans, the neglected infants of working mothers, adolescent girls on the streets, the sick, and the aged had to be brought within the pale of religious life.
- And with foundlings there was always a question mark.
- Drawing on historical research and contemporary interviews, Adie sheds light on how the fate of a foundling differs starkly depending where someone was born.
- To deceive the governors the women sometimes presented their own babies for inspection, so the hospital began branding the foundlings on the arm to ensure proper identification.
- Everything becomes poor, dry, forsaken and neglected, as if most of the buildings and all of the people inside them were orphans, foundlings with no way to prove their origins or fight for their rights and heritage.
- Ginger Rogers plays a department store clerk who is mistakenly identified as the mother of an infant foundling.
- The nuns had a special social role in care for the sick and in rescuing foundlings.
- Perhaps you recall the scene in Three Men And A Baby where Tom Selleck, cradling their foundling in the crook of his arm, reads the child a story about a championship boxing match in that same tone of voice.
- The majority of Santiago's foundlings were also very young infants: from the period 1875 to 1915, 72 percent of children were less than a month old.
- She had a friend who was abandoned at birth, a foundling, and she began to realise that abandoned children were in a far worse position than adopted ones.
- But only this morning, 12 new foundlings were left at the orphanage door, just as funds are again quite low.
- The hospital was the parent of all foundlings admitted until they reached the age of 21, overseers and other local officials having no power in the hospital.
- They concentrated on foundlings and orphans with nurseries to ensure a constant supply of children.
Synonyms abandoned infant, waif, stray, orphan, outcast French enfant trouvé archaic wastrel
OriginMiddle English: from found1 (past participle) + -ling, perhaps on the pattern of Dutch vondeling. Definition of foundling in US English: foundlingnounˈfaʊndlɪŋˈfoundliNG An infant that has been abandoned by its parents and is discovered and cared for by others. 弃婴，弃儿 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps you recall the scene in Three Men And A Baby where Tom Selleck, cradling their foundling in the crook of his arm, reads the child a story about a championship boxing match in that same tone of voice.
- One of the most graphic indicators of the growth in poverty was the rise in the number of foundlings and abandoned children.
- To deceive the governors the women sometimes presented their own babies for inspection, so the hospital began branding the foundlings on the arm to ensure proper identification.
- And with foundlings there was always a question mark.
- She had a friend who was abandoned at birth, a foundling, and she began to realise that abandoned children were in a far worse position than adopted ones.
- Lastly, the deserving poor, including foundlings, orphans, the neglected infants of working mothers, adolescent girls on the streets, the sick, and the aged had to be brought within the pale of religious life.
- The fate of the foundling still depends starkly on where it is born.
- Thus an elaborate plan was hatched, making it appear that the baby, born in 1922, was a foundling.
- The camp was built exclusively for summer use, with no heating, and the foundlings nearly froze as they camped out.
- Ginger Rogers plays a department store clerk who is mistakenly identified as the mother of an infant foundling.
- He fostered many of the hospital foundlings and donated numerous paintings to the hospital's collection, establishing a permanent picture gallery.
- Everything becomes poor, dry, forsaken and neglected, as if most of the buildings and all of the people inside them were orphans, foundlings with no way to prove their origins or fight for their rights and heritage.
- For it goes without saying that ‘every child, even a foundling, is reputed to be the son of a father’.
- The hospital was the parent of all foundlings admitted until they reached the age of 21, overseers and other local officials having no power in the hospital.
- The nuns had a special social role in care for the sick and in rescuing foundlings.
- Drawing on historical research and contemporary interviews, Adie sheds light on how the fate of a foundling differs starkly depending where someone was born.
- What has changed is that today such foundlings are not bound for a life in the workhouse or orphanage, but often face a more secure future than if they had stayed with their natural mothers.
- They concentrated on foundlings and orphans with nurseries to ensure a constant supply of children.
- The majority of Santiago's foundlings were also very young infants: from the period 1875 to 1915, 72 percent of children were less than a month old.
- But only this morning, 12 new foundlings were left at the orphanage door, just as funds are again quite low.
Synonyms abandoned infant, waif, stray, orphan, outcast
OriginMiddle English: from found (past participle) + -ling, perhaps on the pattern of Dutch vondeling. |