Synonyms:
orphan
Meaning: a child who has lost both parents
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
orphan
Meaning: deprive of parents
Usage examples
If this be done, perchance the orphan will not be fatherless all his days."
"Oh, let my parents live Till I a woman grow; For if they die, what can A little orphan do?"
"I have offered the hospitality of this house to a homeless, orphan girl, and she has accepted it.
Lucy, who was a year younger than Lizzie, had at that time been an orphan for the last four years.
"But," said the irritated president, "you called yourself Benedetto, declared yourself an orphan, and claimed Corsica as your country."
"What a blessing that there are such places as orphan asylums for children of that class," said Mrs. Maclntyre, after one of her visits to him.
It cost so much money to clothe them that she decided to dress them all alike, so that they looked like the children of a regular orphan asylum.
As she came to the last words, Miss Sharp's "deep-toned voice faltered." Everybody felt the allusion to her departure, and to her hapless orphan state.
And why go beating about Brentford bushes, seeking orphans forsooth who had established no claims upon you and made no sacrifices for you, when here was an orphan ready to your hand who had given up in your cause, Miss Elizabeth, Master George, Aunt Jane, and Uncle Parker?
The same lady pays for the education and clothing of an orphan from the workhouse, on condition that she shall aid the mistress in such menial offices connected with her own house and the school as her occupation of teaching will prevent her having time to discharge in person.