Definitions for orphanage

orphanage or·phan·age

Spelling: [awr-fuh-nij]
IPA: /ˈɔr fə nɪdʒ/

Orphanage is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 401 anagrams from letters in orphanage (aaeghnopr).

Definitions for orphanage

noun

  1. an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
  2. the state of being an orphan; orphanhood.
  3. Archaic. orphans collectively.

Origin of orphanage

First recorded in 1530-40; orphan + -age

Examples for orphanage

But I stopped long enough at the orphanage to ask about the poor baby.

Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?

That home of affluence was not mine,—it was only the asylum of my first days of orphanage.

For several years they had supported a little girl at an orphanage.

The next time she came to the hospital, Kate had much to ask her about the orphanage.

In 2012, Nicholas and Chris Grava worked at an orphanage in an impoverished area in Cape Town, South Africa.

Three big sunflowers were lying on the still fresh imprint of a human body in the soil in the orphanage yard.

By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.

After dinner she went off to Westminster in search of the orphanage.

The last time Xido was at the orphanage in 2012, money was running out and there was only bread to eat for a few days.

Word Value for orphanage
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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