Definition

1. Noun:
   • A public institution for the care of orphans: An "orphanage" is a residential institution dedicated to housing, caring for, and educating children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable to care for them.
   • The condition of being a child without living parents: "Orphanage" can also refer to the state or fact of being an orphan.

Examples of Usage

• Noun (Institution):
  • The charity raised funds to support the local orphanage.
  • She grew up in an orphanage after her parents passed away.
• Noun (Condition):
  • His early orphanage made him very independent.
  • The novel explores the themes of loss and orphanage.

Advanced Usage

• "to be raised in an orphanage": to spend one's childhood in such an institution.
  • The famous author was raised in an orphanage.
• "the orphanage of war": used metaphorically to describe the state of being orphaned as a result of war.
  • The documentary highlighted the widespread orphanage of war.

Variants and Related Words

• Orphan (n): a child whose parents are dead.
  • The foundation helps orphans find new families.
• Orphan (v): to make someone an orphan.
  • The war orphaned thousands of children.
• Orphaned (adj): having been made an orphan.
  • The orphaned puppy was taken to a shelter.

Synonyms

• Children's home: a general term for a home for children in care.
• Foundling home: a historical term for a home for abandoned infants.
• Orphanhood: (for the condition) the state of being an orphan.

Related Phrases

• "to be left an orphan": to become an orphan.
  • He was left an orphan at the age of ten.
• "out of the orphanage": having left or been adopted from an orphanage.
  • She was adopted out of the orphanage when she was five.

Noun

1. a public institution for the care of orphans
2. the condition of being a child without living parents
   • his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult