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Definitions of orphan
  1. noun
    a child who has lost both parents
  2. noun
    a young animal without a mother
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  3. verb
    deprive of parents
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  4. noun
    someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
  5. noun
    the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
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Definition that contains orphan
  • orphanage a public institution for the care of orphans
  • hershey United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945)
  • waif a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
  • orphans' asylum a public institution for the care of orphans
  • street child a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned
  • foster home a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency)
  • milton snavely hershey United States confectioner and philanthropist who created the model industrial town of Hershey, Pennsylvania; founded an industrial school for orphan boys (1857-1945)
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