Noun
Someone who returns home from travelling or exile or who is welcomed back after disgrace, especially having repented of former extravagant or immoral behaviour.
A marine fish, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAddressing the congregation on the parable of the prodigal son, Rev Richmond Abekah, Circuit Minister, admonished members of the church to take advantage of the redeeming grace of God to repent from their wicked ways. Source: Internet
As we head deeper into the offseason, the USC Trojans football team has seen a prodigal son return. Source: Internet
A brilliantly reimagined telling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as the author's preceeding, incandescent novel Gilead. Source: Internet
For India’s grand old party, the Congress, it should have been a happy season, rejoicing over the return of the prodigal son. Source: Internet
In this message, Dr. Stanley explores the love of God the Father through the parable of the prodigal son. Source: Internet
Is he arriving in the penitential humility of a prodigal son, where everyone, including himself acknowledges the extravagance of his wayward past? Source: Internet