subdict-logo

orphan

Definition

  • noun: a child whose parents are dead
  • noun: a child deprived by death of one or usually both parents
  • verb: to cause (a child) to become an orphan
  • verb: to cause to become an orphan
  • sometimes used of animals
  • synonyms: parentless, twice-bereaved, fatherless

Examples

  • He was left an 'orphan' [=he became an orphan] when his parents died in a car accident.

  • The second volume of the two-volume set 'was orphaned' when we lost the first volume.

  • He 'was orphaned' as a young boy when his parents died in a car accident.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) I said that. It would kill me. #I will not. - I have to go. See you. - Bye Bye. Their cognitive series. His interviews with orphans. His work ethology. And then he, in turn, was supported by ... study Rhesus macaques Harry Harlow. (..)
    2014 Boyhood