Definitions for orphanages

orphanages or·phan·age

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

Orphanages is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 831 anagrams from letters in orphanages (aaeghnoprs).

Definitions for orphanages

noun

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

Origin of orphanages

First recorded in 1530-40; orphan + -age

Examples for orphanages

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for orphanages
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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