NOUN
  • Definition - A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
  • Definition - A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
  • Definition - A young animal with no mother.
  • Definition - Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
  • Definition - A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
  • Definition - Any unreferenced object.
VERB
  • Definition - To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
  • Example - What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
  • Definition - To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
  • Example - Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.
ADJECTIVE
  • Definition - Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
  • Example - She is an orphan child.
  • Definition - (by extension) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
  • Example - With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.
Words in your word
6 Letter Words
orphan 11
5 Letter Words
apron 7
4 Letter Words
harp 9 opah 9 phon 9 hoar 7 hora 7 horn 7 porn 6 prao 6 proa 6 roan 4
3 Letter Words
hap 8 hop 8 pah 8 pho 8 poh 8 hao 6 hon 6 nah 6 noh 6 rah 6 rho 6 apo 5 nap 5 opa 5 pan 5 par 5 pro 5 rap 5 nor 3 oar 3 ora 3 ran 3
2 Letter Words
ah 5 ha 5 ho 5 oh 5 op 4 pa 4 po 4 an 2 ar 2 na 2 no 2 on 2 or 2
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