Dictionary

prodigal son en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

With reference to Luke 15:11–32.

Meanings

1. Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behavior.
   • Don’t look back in anger—Oasis, the prodigal sons of Brit-pop, is returning. After years of public feuding and subtweets and alleged battery with a cricket bat, the Gallagher brothers—Liam and Noel, obvs—are working it out on the remix, with a rash of 2025 summer dates announced on their website. 2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue:
   • Here I am, the prodigal son The self proclaimed deprived Spending hours of fighting the peace When I should lay it on the line 2010, “Enter Dog of Pavlov”, performed by Soilwork, Sweden:
2. A marine fish, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum).

Forms

Relateds

kill the fatted calf

Translations (32)

ga an millteán mic (one who returns) · ka უძღები ძე (one who returns) · ka უძღები შვილი (one who returns) · sh izgubljeni sin (one who returns) · fr fils prodigue (one who returns) · sv förlorad son (one who returns) · lv izšķērdīgais dēls (one who returns) · ja 放蕩息子 (one who returns) · tl alibughang anak (one who returns) · it figliol prodigo (one who returns) · it figlio prodigo (one who returns) · de verlorener Sohn (one who returns) · fi tuhlaajapoika (one who returns) · pl syn marnotrawny (one who returns) · nl verloren zoon (one who returns) · de Zurückkehrer (one who returns) · ca fill pròdig (one who returns) · hu tékozló fiú (one who returns) · ka გზასაცდენილი ძე (one who returns) · pt filho pródigo (one who returns) · sh изгубљени син (one who returns) · ka გზასაცდენილი შვილი (one who returns) · ga an mac díobhlásach (one who returns) · de Heimkehrer (one who returns) · es hijo pródigo (one who returns) · cy mab afradlon (one who returns) · da fortabte søn (one who returns) · ru блу́дный сын (one who returns) · ka ძე შეცდომილი (one who returns) · yue 浪子 (one who returns) · el άσωτος υιός (one who returns) · cmn 浪子 (one who returns)