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Leper
leper
(lepers) 1. A leper is a person who has leprosy. N-COUNT 2. If you refer to someone as a leper, you mean that people in their community avoid them because they have done something that has shocked or offended people. The newspaper article had branded her a social leper not fit to be seen in company. N-COUNT
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1.
noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from lepre leprosy, from Late Latin lepra, from Greek, from lepein to peel; perhaps akin to Lithuanian lopas piece, scrap Date: 14th century 1. a person affected with leprosy 2. a person shunned for moral or social reasons ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
n. 1 a person suffering from leprosy. 2 a person shunned on moral grounds. Etymology: ME, prob. attrib. use of leper leprosy f. OF lepre f. L lepra f. Gk, fem. of lepros scaly f. lepos scale ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. лепрозный больной, прокаженный 2. человек, которого все сторонятся, пария 3. заражать лепрой, проказой 4. портить; вносить разложение ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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5.
~ n 1 someone who suffers from the disease of leprosy 2 someone that people avoid because they have done something that people disapprove of (They treated me as if I was some kind of leper.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- late 14c., from L.L. lepra, from Gk. lepra "leprosy," from fem. of lepros (adj.) "scaly," from leops "a scale," related to lepein "to peel," from lopos "a peel." Originally the word for the disease itself; in M.E. it came to mean "person with leprosy," so leprosy was coined 16c. from adj. leprous. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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