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orphanage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orphanage \Or"phan*age\, n.
The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.
An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "condition of being an orphan," from orphan (n.) + -age. Meaning "home for orphans" is from 1865 (earlier was orphan house, 1711).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A public institution for the care and protection of orphans. 2 (context obsolete English) orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.
WordNet
n. the condition of being a child without living parents; "his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult" [syn: orphanhood]
a public institution for the care of orphans [syn: orphans' asylum]
Wikipedia
An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose biological parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them. Biological parents, and sometimes biological grandparents, are legally responsible for supporting children, but in the absence of these, no named godparent, or other relatives willing to care for the children, they become a ward of the state, and orphanages are one way of providing for their care, housing and education.
It is frequently used to describe institutions abroad, where it is a more accurate term, since the word orphan has a different definition in international adoption. Most children who live in orphanages are not orphans; four out of five children in orphanages having at least one living parent and most having some extended family. Most orphanages have been closed in Europe and North America. There remain a large number of state funded orphanages in the former Soviet Bloc but they are slowly being phased out in favour of direct support to vulnerable families and the development of foster care and adoption services where this is not possible.
Few large international charities continue to fund orphanages; however, they are still commonly founded by smaller charities and religious groups. Especially in developing countries, orphanages may prey on vulnerable families at risk of breakdown and actively recruit children to ensure continued funding. Orphanages in developing countries are rarely run by the state.
Other residential institutions for children can be called group homes, children's homes, refuges, rehabilitation centers, night shelters, or youth treatment centers.
__NOTOC__ Orphanage were a death metal/ gothic metal band from the Netherlands.
Orphanage may refer to:
- Orphanage, the institution dedicated to caring for orphans
- Orphanage (band), a metal band from the Netherlands.
- Orphanage (rap group), an American rap group
- Orphanage Road, a street in Birmingham, England
The Orphanage may refer to:
- The Orphanage (film), a 2007 film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona
- The Orphanage (company), a visual effects company in California
- The Orphanage (video game), a Minecraft horror adventure map.
Usage examples of "orphanage".
The Rules was the not-quite-sentient algorithmic director of the orphanage where Kwame Neiderer grew up.
It was an elusive vision--a moment of bewildering darkness, and then, in a flash like daylight, the red masses of the Orphanage near the crest of the hill, the green tops of the pine trees, and this problematical object came out clear and sharp and bright.
Suddenly I sensed another terrible secret in her, and I knew with clairvoyant certainty that something had happened in the orphanage that was at least equal to the horror of Abner Kady.
She left me at an orphanage in Dimmit County when I was just a few days old.
He would like to see the place too: this Latchetts, where his twin had grown up in belonging quiet while he had bucketed round the world, all the way from the orphanage to that moment in a London street, belonging nowhere.
For a moment she remembered how she sang to herself in the spare cubicles at the orphanage, and could almost recall the lullaby she crooned to herself, to keep away the loneliness.
It beckoned more and more with every wretched year that passed: the Kaiserstadt, the Imperial City - but I was seventeen before I got away and then I went like a foolish girl in an operetta, eloping with a young lieutenant stationed in the little town to which I went each day to work as a sewing maid in an orphanage.
Roolie and Paik, Rattle-Eye and the boy from the orphanage, Loftus, Dalkan Vael.
Evelyn Ruddick knows she should avoid him at all costsbut the strikingly beautiful lady wants to aid the children of the Heart of Hope Orphanage, and he heads the board of trustees.
Of all the meddling females who tried to relieve their boredom with candy-coated visits to the Heart of Hope Orphanage, Evelyn Marie Ruddick was probably the most and least surprising.
Prince George and finalize the plan to destroy the orphanage, and not informing all and sundry that proper Evelyn Marie Ruddick had lifted her heels for him.
Evie Ruddick, advocate of the unwashed masses, dining with a man set to tear down an orphanage.
Maidens of Saille was a religious order of celibate women who ran the sole orphanage.
When the gang disintegrated, Antenn had been sent to the Maidens of Saille Orphanage.
Up at dawn while Henry still lay snoring, throw on his clothes in the unheated room, splash his face with water from the pitcher on the washstand, a hasty shave, a swift bicycle ride to the orphanage, half an hour with Precious, another hurried ride to 75A Parnell Street, where Sile was waiting for him.