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orphan

noun

1 orphan

A child who has lost both parents.

Roget 129: infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.    child, bairn [Scot.], ... show more

Dutch: wees, weesjongen, weeskind, weesmeisje
Polish: sierota

2 orphan

Someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision.

3 orphan

The first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column.

Dutch: weesmeisje
Polish: szewc, sierota

4 orphan

A young animal without a mother.

Dutch: weeskind

verb

1 orphan

Deprive of parents.


Moby thesaurus: abandoned, alone, bereave, cast-off, castaway, castoff, derelict, discard, disregarded, dogie, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, forsaken, foundling, heir, ignored, jetsam, junk, lagan, leave ... show more.

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