orphan
Noun:
- A child whose parents are dead: A person, especially a young one, who has lost both parents through death.
- A young animal that has lost its mother: An animal, typically young, whose mother has died or is absent.
- Something that lacks support or care: A person or thing that is without protection, guidance, or a usual source of support.
- A technical term in typesetting: The first line of a paragraph that appears alone at the bottom of a page or column, separated from the rest of the paragraph.
Verb:
- To make (a child) an orphan: To deprive a child of its parents, typically through death.
Noun:
- After the accident, the boy became an orphan and went to live with his aunt.
- The zookeepers are caring for an orphan elephant calf.
- The abandoned project was an orphan, with no department willing to fund it.
- The editor fixed the orphan at the bottom of page 5.
Verb:
- The war orphaned thousands of children.
- She was orphaned at a very young age.
"Orphan drug": A pharmaceutical agent developed specifically to treat a rare medical condition, which might not be profitable to produce without special incentives.
- The government offers tax benefits for companies that develop orphan drugs.
"Orphan work": A copyrighted work for which the copyright holder cannot be contacted or identified.
- Libraries often struggle with how to digitize orphan works.
Orphanage (n): A residential institution for the care and education of orphans.
- She grew up in an orphanage.
Orphaned (adj): Describing someone or something that has been made an orphan.
- The orphaned children were placed in foster care.
Orphanhood (n): The state of being an orphan.
- His early orphanhood shaped his character.
- Noun: Ward (of the state), foundling (an abandoned child of unknown parents).
- Verb: Bereave (of parents), deprive (of parents).
"Orphan Annie": A reference to the comic strip character, often used to describe someone who appears poor, innocent, and parentless.
- With her big eyes and old dress, she looked like a little Orphan Annie.
"Orphan planet" (or rogue planet): A planetary-mass object that does not orbit a star and travels through space alone.
- Scientists have discovered several orphan planets drifting in interstellar space.
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a young animal without a mother
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the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
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someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
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a child who has lost both parents
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deprive of parents
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