orphan

[US]/ˈɔːfn/
[UK]/ˈɔːrfn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. without parents; having lost one's parents
n. a child who has lost one or both parents
vt. to make into an orphan

Phrases & Collocations

orphanage

Example Sentences

a home for orphan and abandoned boys.

John was orphaned at 12.

The war orphaned him.

He was orphaned at an early age.

The food at the orphan house was so bad that it's uneatable.; The food at the orphan house was so bad that it's hardly eatable.

Her heart went out to the poor orphan child.

I pity the orphans with all my heart.

The poor orphans were kept on short commons.

Orphaned children were consigned to institutions.

The child has been ill-treated in the orphan house.

Already released 400 diarial newest one is " Su Qian orphan has warmth " .

Miss Diana gave away all her castoffs to the little girls in the orphan asylum.

These deserted orphans lived happily ever after.

The two sisters were orphaned when their parents died in a plane crash.

See also: clock alarm, untimed alarm, orphan alarm, snoozed alarm, session alarm

Orphaned as a baby, Robinson began performing in local beer gardens at age six.Within two years, this young "hoofer," or song-and-dance man, was entertaining audiences far from home.

After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.

Real-world Examples

Parker was an orphan, no one would miss him.

Source: Harvard University Open Course "Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?"

It is my treatment of poor Morstan's orphan.

Source: The Sign of the Four

At first, Choodamani and her husband brought four orphans home.

Source: VOA Special English: World

It's a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen.

Source: A man named Ove decides to die.

And being an orphan, Oreo's been looking for a new mother.

Source: Growing Up with Cute Pets

I was not an orphan who wore different color shoes.

Source: Connection Magazine

He arrived an orphan after his mother died on the journey.

Source: BBC Listening Collection May 2023

You can say to them, " Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan."

Source: VOA Special June 2020 Collection

They are definitely connected through childhood as Riddler was an orphan in the Wayne's orphanage.

Source: Selected Film and Television News

A bunch of big guys like you, pickin' on a poor little orphan like him.

Source: Universal Dialogue for Children's Animation

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