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orphan English

Meaning orphan meaning

What does orphan mean?
Definitions in simple English

orphan Noun

— An orphan is someone who does not have parents. That is, their mother and father are both dead. This is most often used for a child. She became an orphan when the storm killed her parents. We could not have children, so we adopted an orphan.

orphan

— noun a child who has lost both parents — noun someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision — noun the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column — noun a young animal without a mother — verb deprive of parents

Synonyms orphan synonyms

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orphan English » English

poor parentless motherless fatherless widower widow survivor single poor person orphanhood ward waif street child poor fellow pitiful parentless child orphaned orphanage orphan child lorn lonely homeless helpless foster child forlorn fatherless girl fatherless boy deserted child beloved child bachelor alone adopted child abandoned person abandoned

Topics orphan topics

What do people use orphan to talk about?
Social behavior Relationships Kinship

Orphan
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Trouble

Separate, alone

Conjugation orphan conjugation

How do you conjugate orphan?

orphan · verb

Examples orphan examples

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Simple sentences

He adopted the orphan.
The orphan was fostered by the wealthy man.
An orphan at three, he was brought up by a distant relative.
He is a war orphan.
She sympathized with the orphan and gave him some money.
It is said that she looked after the orphan.
She was an orphan who lost her parents in a plane crash.
The couple decided to adopt an orphan.
A child whose parents are dead is called an orphan.
She felt sympathy for the orphan and gave him some money.
He received an orphan.
Tom is an orphan.
The orphan met up with his two sisters when he was five years old.
They adopted the orphan.
He became an orphan when he was ten.
Tom was an orphan.
I'm an orphan.

Movie subtitles

At the far end of the table were Sir Arne's niece, Berghild, and her foster sister Elsalill, an orphan taken in by the vicar's household.
Please love and care for this orphan child.
Anna, an orphan, taken care of by her aunt Aliona.
Poor orphan boy who never had a chance.
What am I, an orphan?
Me, the orphan, son of a beggar woman.
You're not a-Ioving of him, not a-pitying of the poor little orphan!
I'm an orphan myself - for all my life!
It's a hard life to be an orphan.
How is he going to live, the poor orphan?
And there I was, a poor orphan, no ma, no pa. Brung up by Comanche Indians.
I was an orphan.
Incredible. I was an orphan too.
She's an orphan.
I hear she's an orphan.
At the far end of the table were Sir Arne's niece, Berghild, and her foster sister Elsalill, an orphan taken in by the vicar's household. Elsalill. Mary Johnson Berghild.
Dan, remember at the little orphan you took in.
You've told me a dozen times you were practically born in an orphan asylum.
You even make the orphan laugh.
And there I was, a poor orphan, no ma and no pa, brung up by Comanche Indians.
I was an orphan too.
A bunch of big guys like you, picking on a poor little orphan like him.
Micheline Lafaurie, 19, orphan.
I took you in, you were an orphan from the last war!
Sorry, I'm an orphan.
Not everyone is lucky enough to be an orphan.
Last night I got to thinking, so I talks to a guy who tells me about this orphan asylum.
What orphan asylum?
A bunch of big guys like you pickin' on a poor little orphan like him.
I've never told her. she was an orphan.
A product of the gutters and bazaars. an orphan waif, who lived by his shrewdness and cunning.
I'm an orphan.
I've got nothing to lose. I'm an orphan.
Well, well, an orphan.
He has always lived with me since he became an orphan.

News and current affairs

Chin held that the United States Congress, not a court, was the appropriate body to decide who should be entrusted with guardianship over orphan books, and on what terms.
An orphan who was educated by monks, Fourier was a professor at the age of 18, and became Napoleon's governor in Egypt before returning to a career in science.

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