leper
noun/ˈlepə(r)/
/ˈlepər/
- a person who has the disease leprosy Many people dislike this use and prefer to say that somebody has leprosy rather than refer to them as ‘a leper’.
- a person that other people avoid because they have done something that these people do not approve of
- His outspoken views have made him a social leper.
Word Originlate Middle English: probably from an attributive use of leper ‘leprosy’, from Old French lepre, via Latin from Greek lepra, feminine of lepros ‘scaly’, from lepos, lepis ‘scale’.
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