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orphanage

[ awr-fuh-nij ]

noun

  1. an institution for the housing and care of orphans.
  2. the state of being an orphan; orphanhood.
  3. Archaic. orphans collectively.


orphanage

/ ˈɔːfənɪdʒ /

noun

  1. an institution for orphans and abandoned children
  2. the state of being an orphan


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Word History and Origins

Origin of orphanage1

First recorded in 1530–40; orphan + -age

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Example Sentences

By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.

The last time Xido was at the orphanage in 2012, money was running out and there was only bread to eat for a few days.

In 2012, Nicholas and Chris Grava worked at an orphanage in an impoverished area in Cape Town, South Africa.

Three big sunflowers were lying on the still fresh imprint of a human body in the soil in the orphanage yard.

Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?

One-half of all income from my estate was to be paid to the church, the other half for orphanage entertainment.

She sold the Bartholomew house, entered you boys in the orphanage in January 1942.

Your recollection is that your brother Lee was taken from the orphanage home before you and Robert were?

The next time she came to the hospital, Kate had much to ask her about the Orphanage.

That home of affluence was not mine,—it was only the asylum of my first days of orphanage.

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