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Etymology

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With reference to Luke 15:11–32.

Noun

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prodigal son (plural prodigal sons)

  1. Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behaviour.
    • 2010, “Enter Dog of Pavlov”, performed by Soilwork:
      Here I am, the prodigal son
      The self proclaimed deprived
      Spending hours of fighting the peace
      When I should lay it on the line
    • 2024 August 28, Raven Smith, “Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, and the Art of the Public Feud”, in Vogue[1]:
      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.
  2. A marine fish, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum).

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