or·phan·age

(ôr′fə-nĭj)

1. A public institution for the care and protection of children without parents.

2. The condition of being a child without parents.

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orphanage

(ˈɔːfənɪdʒ)

1. an institution for orphans and abandoned children. Also called: children's home

2. the state of being an orphan

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

or•phan•age

(ˈɔr fə nɪdʒ)

n.

1. an institution for the housing and care of orphans.

2. the state of being an orphan.

[1530–40]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	orphanage - the condition of being a child without living parents; "his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult" orphanhood condition - a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition"
	2.	orphanage - a public institution for the care of orphans orphans' asylum institution - an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated

Translations

مَيْتَم

sirotčinec

børnehjem

Waisenhaus

orfejo

orfanato

یتیم خانه

orphelinat orphelinage

sirotište

árvaház

munaðarleysingjahælimunaîarleysingjahæli

orfanotrofio

vaisenhus

orfanato

sirotinec

sirotišnica

sirotište

öksüzler yurduyetimhane

اناتھ اشرم

孤儿院

orphanage

[ˈɔːfənɪdʒ] N

1. (= institution) → orfanato m, orfanatorio m (Mex)

2. (= state) → orfandad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

orphanage

[ˈɔː^rfənɪdʒ] n → orphelinat m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

orphanage

n → Waisenhaus nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

orphanage

[ˈɔːfənɪdʒ] n → orfanotrofio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

orphan

(ˈoːfən) noun

a child who has lost both parents (rarely only one parent). That little girl is an orphan; (also adjective) an orphan child.

ˈorphanage (-nidʒ) noun

a home for orphans.

orphanage

n. orfanato, hospicio, asilo de huérfanos.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

orphanage

n orfanato, orfelinato, orfanatorio

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References in classic literature

At this point of his career Jo seemed to be getting a long way from the condition of orphanage; the interposition of a multitude of parents between himself and that woeful state promised him a long immunity from its disadvantages.

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It was an elusive vision--a moment of bewildering darkness, and then, in a flash like daylight, the red masses of the Orphanage near the crest of the hill, the green tops of the pine trees, and this problematical object came out clear and sharp and bright.

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She had listened -- this girl of eighteen, in the first week of her orphanage, had listened to the whole terrible revelation, word by word, as it fell from the lawyer's lips; and had never once betrayed herself!

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If the woman had sent Kim up to the local Jadoo-Gher with those papers, he would, of course, have been taken over by the Provincial Lodge, and sent to the Masonic Orphanage in the Hills; but what she had heard of magic she distrusted.

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He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next.

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MIRPURKHAS -- Hundreds of orphans held a demonstration outside Sweet Home in Satellite Town on Saturday in protest against suspension of power supply to the orphanage for past four days.

Protest against suspension of power supply to orphanage

THE National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has donated relief materials to the orphanage in Uwanse, Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River.

NYSC Donates Relief Materials To Orphanage In Calabar

Tribune News Network Doha Qatar Charity (QC), with the support of the people in Qatar, has opened an orphanage in the Swat District of Pakistan to accommodate 100 orphans.

QC opens orphanage in Pakistan's Swat

DERA GHAZI KHAN -- Forty two children at an orphanage in Dera Ghazi Khan contracted food poisoning on Tuesday.

42 children contract food poisoning at orphanage

CoreCentric Solutions Technology Office located in Pune, India held a volunteer event at a local orphanage. 28 team members delivered food and supplies to support a local orphanage with 100 children ranging in age from newborns to age 6.

CORECENTRIC SOLUTIONS' INDIA TEAM SUPPORTS LOCAL ORPHANAGE

[10/March/2019] SANAA, March 10 (Saba) - Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Abdulmalik al-Thawr and Minister of Education Yahya al-Houthi on Sunday planted a number of trees in the Orphanage in the capital Sanaa.

Ministers of Agriculture, Education plant trees in orphanage in capital Sanaa

The turning point came when the couple found an abandoned child left at a distance from their home, compelling them to build an orphanage by the name of 'Yosoda Orphan Ashram', along with a board outside stating that children should not be abandoned.

Odisha: Couple becomes silver lining for abandoned children