Orphan

Noun

 * 1) A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
 * 2) A young animal with no mother.
 * 3)  Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
 * 4)  A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
 * 5)  Any unreferenced abstract object.

Adjective

 * 1) Deprived of parents (also orphaned:).
 * 2)  Remaining after the removal of some form of support.

Verb

 * 1)  To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
 * 2)   To make unavailable, as by unlinking the last remaining pointer to.

Adjectives for Orphan
frail; exotic; white-faced; helpless; lonely; homeless.

Thesaurus
castoff, derelict, discard, disregarded, dogie, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, forsaken, foundling, heir, ignored, jetsam, junk, lagan, leave, leave behind, lost, neglected, orphaned, parentless, refuse, reject, relict, rubbish, slighted, solitary, successor, survivor, trash, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, widow, widower, abandoned, alone, bereave, cast-off, castaway,

Etymology
From orphanus:, from  ὀρφανός:, from. Cognate with Sanskrit अर्भ:, Latin orbus:, Old High German arabeit: (German Arbeit:).

Derived terms

 * orphanage
 * orphancy
 * orphandom
 * orphanhood
 * orphaner


 * orphanet
 * orphan initialism
 * orphanism
 * orphanity
 * orphanize
 * orphanotropism


 * orphanry
 * orphanship
 * orphany

Related terms

 * orphan drug

Noun

 * Afrikaans: weeskind
 * Albanian: jetim, jetime ; ,
 * Arabic: يتيم
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Azeri: yetim
 * Bengali: তিম
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: orfe
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: orb, vaeslaps
 * Faroese: foreldraloysingur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Old French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, πεντάρφανος
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: dílleachta
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 孤児
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish: هه‌تیو


 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: našlaitis
 * Livonian: joutõm läpš, bōŗ läpš
 * Luhya:
 * Manx:
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: foreldreløst barn
 * Ossetian:
 * Ottoman Turkish:
 * Papiamentu: wérfano
 * Persian:
 * Polish: sierota
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dìlleachd, dìlleachdan, tàcharan
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, , , , ,
 * Roman:, , , , ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: mfiwa,
 * Swedish: föräldralöst barn
 * Tagalog: ulila
 * Taos: pènku’úna
 * Telugu: అనాధ
 * Thai: เด็กกำพร้า
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ,
 * Vietnamese: đứa trẻ mồ côi, mồ côi
 * Welsh: amddifad