foundling

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an abandoned infant or child whose parents are unknown

   The eighteenth-century hospital was established to shelter foundlings and other abandoned children.

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From Middle English fyndling and foundling, formed from find or found + the noun-forming suffix -ling: literally, a child who has been found after being abandoned.

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