ALL meanings of orphan
or·phan
O o - noun orphan a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent. 1
- noun orphan a young animal that has been deserted by or has lost its mother. 1
- noun orphan a person or thing that is without protective affiliation, sponsorship, etc.: The committee is an orphan of the previous administration. 1
- noun orphan Printing. (especially in word processing) the first line of a paragraph when it appears alone at the bottom of a page. widow (def 3b). 1
- adjective orphan bereft of parents. 1
- adjective orphan of or for orphans: an orphan home. 1
- adjective orphan not authorized, supported, or funded; not part of a system; isolated; abandoned: an orphan research project. 1
- adjective orphan lacking a commercial sponsor, an employer, etc.: orphan workers. 1
- verb with object orphan to deprive of parents or a parent through death: He was orphaned at the age of four. 1
- verb with object orphan Informal. to deprive of commercial sponsorship, an employer, etc.: The recession has orphaned many experienced workers. 1
- noun orphan A child whose parents are dead. 1
- noun orphan child whose parents are dead 1
- adjective orphan without parents 1
- transitive verb orphan deprive of parents 1
- countable noun orphan An orphan is a child whose parents are dead. 0
- passive verb orphan If a child is orphaned, their parents die, or their remaining parent dies. 0
- noun orphan a child, one or (more commonly) both of whose parents are dead 0
- noun orphan (as modifier) 0
- noun orphan the first line of a paragraph separated from the rest of the paragraph by occurring at the foot of a page 0
- verb orphan to deprive of one or both parents 0
- noun orphan a child whose father and mother are dead 0
- adjective orphan being an orphan 0
- adjective orphan of or for orphans 0
- adjective orphan of a product that is medically valuable but is not produced because it lacks a profitable market, as a drug for a rare disease 0
- verb transitive orphan to cause to become an orphan 0