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Synonyms for orphan
ˈɔr fənor·phan
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Princeton's WordNet
orphannoun
a child who has lost both parents
orphannoun
someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
orphannoun
the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
orphanverb
a young animal without a mother
orphanverb
deprive of parents
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How to use orphan in a sentence?
I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger, but I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me,' (...) there were a couple of very affluent neighborhoods nearby, but I never thought for one second that those people had more than I had. It just seemed that they got what they were entitled to, and if I really wanted those things, then I would have them, too.
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
We believe the price reflects the significant clinical, economic and humanistic value of the product to patients and the healthcare system, for an ultra-orphan population with a dramatic impact on a serious illness.
History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.
We wanted to offer an alternative to killing orphan bear cubs that got attached to human civilization.
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- يتيمArabic
- sirotekCzech
- forældreløseDanish
- WaiseGerman
- orphelinFrench
- dílleachtaIrish
- अनाथHindi
- árvaHungarian
- anak yatimIndonesian
- orfanoItalian
- יתוםHebrew
- ಅನಾಥKannada
- pupilliLatin
- weesDutch
- foreldreløsNorwegian
- sierotaPolish
- órfãoPortuguese
- orfanRomanian
- сиротаRussian
- foräldralosSwedish
- அனாதைTamil
- అనాధTelugu
- เด็กกำพร้าThai
- yetimTurkish
- یتیمUrdu
- mồ côiVietnamese
- 孤儿Chinese
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