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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Orphan has 4 senses
- orphan(n = noun.person) - a child who has lost both parents; is a kind of child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster
- orphan(n = noun.person) - someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision; is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- orphan(n = noun.communication) - the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column; is a kind of line
- orphan(n = noun.animal) - a young animal without a mother; is a kind of offspring, young
Derived form verb orphan1
Verb Orphan has 1 sense
- orphan(v = verb.possession) - deprive of parents; is one way to deprive, divest, strip
Derived forms noun orphan1, noun orphanage2, noun orphanage1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
CIDE DICTIONARY
Orphan, n. [L. orphanus, Gr. , akin to L. orbus. Cf. Orb a blank window.].
A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living. [1913 Webster]
Orphan, a.
Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent. [1913 Webster]
Orphan, v. t.
To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents. Young. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Orphan, n. & v.
--n. (often attrib.)
1 a child bereaved of a parent or usu. both parents.
2 a person bereft of previous protection, advantages, etc.
--v.tr. bereave (a child) of its parents or a parent.
--n. (often attrib.)
1 a child bereaved of a parent or usu. both parents.
2 a person bereft of previous protection, advantages, etc.
--v.tr. bereave (a child) of its parents or a parent.
Derivative
orphanhood n. orphanize v.tr. (also -ise).
Etymology
ME f. LL orphanus f. Gk orphanos bereaved
DEVIL DICTIONARY
Orphan
n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude -- a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid.THESAURUS
Orphan
abandoned, alone, bereave, cast-off, castaway, castoff, derelict, discard, disregarded, dogie, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, forsaken, foundling, heir, ignored, jetsam, junk, lagan, leave, leave behind, lost, neglected, orphaned, parentless, refuse, reject, relict, rubbish, slighted, solitary, successor, survivor, trash, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, widow, widowerROGET THESAURUS
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Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.
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