Today's Word "foundling"
Published in Vocabulary
foundling \FOWND-ling\ (noun) - A deserted or abandoned infant; a child found without a parent or caretaker.
"Expectations were low for the foundling, yet she went on to graduate at the top of her class and became a captain of industry."
Foundling comes from Old English foundling, fundling, from finden, "to find" + the suffix -ling.
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