Definitions for orphans

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orphans or·phan

Spelling: [awr-fuh n]

IPA: /ˈɔr fən/

Orphans is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in orphans (ahnoprs).

Definitions for orphans

noun

1. a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
2. a young animal that has been deserted by or has lost its mother.
3. a person or thing that is without protective affiliation, sponsorship, etc.:
4. Printing. (especially in word processing) the first line of a paragraph when it appears alone at the bottom of a page. widow (def 3b).

adjective

1. bereft of parents.
2. of or for orphans:
3. not authorized, supported, or funded; not part of a system; isolated; abandoned:
4. lacking a commercial sponsor, an employer, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to deprive of parents or a parent through death:
2. Informal. to deprive of commercial sponsorship, an employer, etc.:

Origin of orphans

1425-75; late Middle English (noun) Late Latin orphanus destitute, without parents Greek orphanós bereaved; akin to Latin orbus bereaved

Examples for orphans

Scribbling notes in the classroom next door is Justine, a shy 17-year-old orphan who is the only female in her class.

It is the child of one dear, most dear to me; an orphan; I know not with whom else to place it.

The clone saga orphan Black is pulpy, adrenaline-fueled television at its finest.

Sophie Hannah, the author of the new novel The orphan Choir, has always preferred the sketchy storyteller.

Maslany is so deeply ingrained in the DNA of orphan Black that without her incredible performances, there would be no show.

An orphan, Sofiya had dropped out of high school to support herself.

Do you know of any orphan with three or four hundred pound?'

At his birth he was an orphan, his father having died a few weeks previously.

She was an orphan and unhappy, and on this day of triumph she felt the need of a family.

She had ceased to think about the lad while she was giving this explanation of an orphan to her son.