Orphan

['ɔːf(ə)n] or ['ɔrfn]

Definition

(noun.) a young animal without a mother.

(noun.) the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column.

(noun.) a child who has lost both parents.

(noun.) someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision.

(verb.) deprive of parents.

Inputed by Giles--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.

(a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.

(v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.

Editor: Nat

Definition

n. a child bereft of father or mother or of both.—adj. bereft of parents.—v.t. to bereave of parents.—ns. Or′phanage the state of being an orphan: a house for orphans; Or′phan-asy′lum; Or′phanhood Or′phanism; Orphanot′rophy the supporting of orphans.

Edited by Bridget

Unserious Contents or Definition

Condoling with orphans in a dream, means that the unhappy cares of others will touch your sympathies and cause you to sacrifice much personal enjoyment. If the orphans be related to you, new duties will come into your life, causing estrangement from friends ant from some person held above mere friendly liking.

Checked by Hillel

Unserious Contents or Definition

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.

Typist: Toni

Examples

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