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(informal) An institution that is paid to care for unwanted children, often doubling as an orphanage or home for unwed mothers.
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The evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.
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An infant kept in hospital because its parents are unable or unfit to take care of it.
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A public institution for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer care for them.
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(physiology) Describing an orphan receptor whose endogenous ligand has now been identified (producing an "adopted orphan").
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A child who has lost both parents.
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An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.
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A person, especially a child, with only one living parent.
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A child whose mother has died.
adj
(obsolete) bereaved; fatherless or childless
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(obsolete) The state of being orbate, or deprived of parents or children; privation, in general; bereavement.
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(obsolete) A bereavement by loss of parents or children; the state of being orbate; orbation.
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Obsolete form of orpheline. [(obsolete) An orphan.]
adj
Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
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(copyright law) A copyright-protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable.
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(obsolete) Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.
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(rare, chiefly humorous) An orphanage.
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The losing of both parents through their death.
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The state of being an orphan.
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Obsolete spelling of orphan [A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.]
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Alternative form of orphan work [(copyright law) A copyright-protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable.]
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(dated) Synonym of orphan
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(dated, rare) A young or little orphan.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an orphan.
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The state of being an orphan.
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(rare) The state of being an orphan; orphanhood.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of an orphan.
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(dated, rare) The care and support of orphans.
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(historical) A kind of orphanage in ancient times.
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(rare) The losing of both parents through death.
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The losing of both parents through death.
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Obsolete form of orphan. [A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.]
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Pronunciation spelling of orphan. [A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.]
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A child falsely presented as an orphan by means of fraudulent documentation, facilitating human trafficking etc.
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A charitable institution dedicated to the support and protection of orphans or vulnerable children.
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A child with no adult carers, though one or both parents are still living.
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(US) An orphan whose parents died due to war, especially in 20th-century China.
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