Orphan
WordNet
adjective
(1) Deprived of parents by death or desertion
noun
(2) A young animal without a mother
(3) The first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
(4) A child who has lost both parents
(5) Someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
verb
(6) Deprive of parents
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From , from , from . Cognate with Sanskrit , Latin , Old High German (German ).
Noun
- A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
- A young animal with no mother.
- A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
- Any unreferenced abstract object.
Adjective
(also orphaned)
- Deprived of parents.
- She is an orphan child.
- Intended for orphans.
- She made a generous contribution to the orphan fund.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the nature of an orphan.
- With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.
Verb
- To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
- What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
- To make unavailable, as by unlinking the last remaining pointer to.
- When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
- Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.