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lazarone

lazarone is the alternative form of lazzarone.

Meaning of lazzarone

Noun

lazzarone (plural lazzarones or lazzaroni)

  1. (historical, in plural) One of the poorer classes of Neapolitans; a chance-worker or beggar.
    • What does he mean by his Rights of Man, and his equality?—What wretched and dangerous doctrine to diſſeminate among the lazzaroni* of England, where they are always ready enough to murmur againſt their betters?1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter X. To Mr. Bethel.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 121

Forms of lazarone

plurallazarones
plurallazaroni

Questions about lazarone

What is lazarone the alternative form of?
Lazarone is the alternative form of lazzarone.

Words near lazarone in the dictionary

  1. Lazarites
  2. lazarlike
  3. lazarly
  4. lazaroid
  5. lazaroids
  6. lazarone
  7. lazarones
  8. lazaroni
  9. lazars
  10. Lazarte
  11. Lazartes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lazarone (page history and authors); lazzarone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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