Synonyms for orphanage
ˈɔr fə nɪdʒor·phan·age

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1. orphanagenoun

   Synonyms:
   childrens home, orphanarium

2. orphanagenoun

   A public institution for the care and protection of orphans.

   Synonyms:
   orphanarium, childrens home

3. orphanagenoun

   Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.

   Synonyms:
   orphanarium, childrens home

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1. orphanage, orphanhoodnoun

   the condition of being a child without living parents

   "his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult"

   Synonyms:
   orphans' asylum, orphanhood

2. orphanage, orphans' asylumnoun

   a public institution for the care of orphans

   Synonyms:
   orphans' asylum, orphanhood

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1. Nyrola Elimä:

   This wasn't their way of life before, we have our home, our garden, we're living with our parents or sister... and now suddenly, someone is living in one city, their parents living in a nursing home, kids in a separate orphanage. What is going on here ?

2. Lani Dickinson:

   When I came to the orphanage, there wasn't any information left behind, a lot of my birth culture was lost and forgotten.

3. Tony Massarotti:

   What bugs me about a story like this is when they use the word ‘tragedy,’ a tragedy is what happened at that church in Texas this past weekend, or an orphanage burning down. This? You know what the risks are!

4. Georgette Mulheir:

   They pay people called' child finders' who go out into the community and essentially put pressure on parents to give them their children, they will tell parents,' you are poor, you can't afford your child's education. Give them to the orphanage. We'll make sure they have an education, have healthcare, have opportunities that you could never give them.'.

5. Colleen Thompson:

   Kids who wind up in an orphanage have been through enough trauma in their lives, colleen Thompson future daughter've lived through things many of us can not imagine.