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BNC: 20235 COCA: 17715

leper

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
leper /ˈlɛpɚ/ noun
plural lepers
leper
/ˈlɛpɚ/
noun
plural lepers
Learner's definition of LEPER
[count]
: a person who has leprosy麻风病人
: someone who is disliked and avoided by other people大家避之唯恐不及的人;被排斥的人
BNC: 20235 COCA: 17715

leper

noun

lep·​er ˈle-pər How to pronounce leper (audio)
1
: a person affected with leprosy
2
: a person shunned for moral or social reasons

Example Sentences

was treated as a leper after she leveled unpopular criticism of the beloved star
Recent Examples on the Web In this documentary short, life in a leper colony is shown to the outside world. cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022 Chief among the rudely treated are women of childbearing age and the denizens of a leper colony outside Nazareth’s gates. Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2022 When the audience sees climactic moments from the Gospels, such as Jesus’s miraculous healing of a leper, the events register as disruptions of the status quo. Chris Deville, The Atlantic, 27 June 2021 Many of Jesus ’ teachings revolve around the value of the outcast, the stranger, the leper and the suffering. Jory Fleming, WSJ, 17 June 2021 All these years later, Kuchel remains a leper to the O.C. GOP. Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2021 Weissmann should be obliged to go about wearing bells like a medieval leper to warn the unsuspecting of his approach. Conrad Black, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020 Set flamboyantly in the Holy Land, a miracle worker has arrived — just as one who, centuries before, healed a desperate leper who came before him after delivery of the Sermon on the Mount. Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020 For centuries, leper colonies and lazarettos had sequestered bodies and cargos suspected of carrying disease. Timothy Kent Holliday, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2020 See More

Word History

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

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of leper was in the 14th century
BNC: 20235 COCA: 17715

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