Usually means: Children without living parents, alone.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. orphans: Merriam-Webster
  2. orphans: Collins English Dictionary
  3. orphans: Vocabulary.com
  4. Orphan's, Orphans, orphan's, orphans: Wordnik
  5. orphans: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. orphans: Wiktionary
  7. Orphans, orphans: Dictionary.com
  8. orphans: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Orphans (American Horror Story), Orphans (Coldplay song), Orphans (Dennis Kelly play), Orphans (Lyle Kessler play), Orphans (film), Orphans (song), Orphans: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. orphans: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. orphans: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. orphans: Legal dictionary
  3. orphans: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. orphans: Netlingo
  2. orphans: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orphans: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Orphans: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Orphans: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (orphan)

noun:  A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
noun:  A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
noun:  A young animal with no mother.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
noun:  (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
noun:  (computing) Any unreferenced object.
adjective:  Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
adjective:  (by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
verb:  (transitive) To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
verb:  (transitive, computing) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
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