English Dictionary

wanton

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwɒntən/

名詞

古語

A pampered or coddled person. / An overly playful person; a trifler. / A self-indulgent person, fond of excess. / (archaic) A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.

日本語の意味

甘やかされて育つ人、お世話になって甘やかされる人 / 過度に遊び好きな人、軽薄な人 / 自己中心的で欲望に溺れがちな人 / （古語）好色で不道徳な人、特に娼婦

By the time he inherited the estate, he had become a wanton who expected everyone to cater to his slightest whim.

彼が財産を相続した頃には、彼は誰もが些細な望みに応えて当然だと思うほど甘やかされた人間になっていた。

意味（1）

A pampered or coddled person.

I would have thee gone — / And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, / That lets it hop a little from her hand, / Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, / And with a silken thread plucks it back again[…]

意味（2）

An overly playful person; a trifler.

you but dally, / I pray you passe with your best violence, / I am afeard you make a wanton of me.

意味（3）

A self-indulgent person, fond of excess.

意味（4）

(archaic) A lewd or immoral person, especially a prostitute.

...paints with tremendous force the adulteries of the two wantons Aholah and Aholibah, Israel and Judah, and their love of strangers...

wantons （ plural ）