Crossword clues for orphan
orphan
- Jane Eyre, e.g
- Dogie, e.g
- "Little __ Annie"
- Child without parents
- Harry Potter, e.g
- Ward of the state, maybe
- Unmatched sock, informally
- Unfunded, as a research project
- Tom Sawyer or Oliver Twist
- Single word on the last line of a paragraph, say
- Parentless kid
- Many an adoptee
- Little Annie, e.g
- Little __ Annie
- Foster child, maybe
- Dickens's Pip, e.g
- Bruce Wayne, e.g
- Broadway's Annie, for one
- Annie's status
- Annie, notably
- Annie or Harry Potter
- Annie of comics, for one
- Annie of comics, e.g
- Anne of Green Gables or Annie
- "Little ____ Annie"
- "___ Black" (BBC America show featuring multiple clones)
- "___ Black" (BBC America show featuring clones)
- 'Little -- Annie'
- ''Little __ Annie''
- Annie, for one
- Annie, e.g., in the comics
- Deserted animal
- "Little ___ Annie"
- Dickens's Pip, e.g.
- Parentless child
- Harold Gray's Annie, for one
- Annie or Dondi, of the comics
- Annie of the comics, e.g.
- James of "James and the Giant Peach," for one
- Dogie, e.g.
- A child who has lost both parents
- Book printer's no-no
- TV's Webster, for one
- Child like Annie
- Little Oliver Twist, e.g.
- Child with no living parent
- Child with no parents
- Child with dead parents
- One's parents are late turning up for Chinese
- Parentless child frequently so pronounced by some
- Bereft child
- Harp on about Annie, say
- Harp on about deprived child?
- Oliver Twist, for one
- Oliver Twist, e.g
- Annie of the comics, for one
- Harry Potter, for one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orphan \Or"phan\, a. Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
Orphan \Or"phan\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Orphaned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Orphaning.]
To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
--Young.
Orphan \Or"phan\, n. [L. orphanus, Gr. ?, akin to L. orbus. Cf. Orb a blank window.] A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
Orphans' court (Law), a court in some of the States of the
Union, having jurisdiction over the estates and persons of
orphans or other wards.
--Bouvier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, from orphan (n.). Related: Orphaned; orphaning.
c.1300, from Late Latin orphanus "parentless child" (source of Old French orfeno, Italian orfano), from Greek orphanos "orphaned, without parents, fatherless," literally "deprived," from orphos "bereft," from PIE *orbho- "bereft of father," also "deprived of free status," from root *orbh- "to change allegiance, to pass from one status to another" (cognates: Hittite harb- "change allegiance," Latin orbus "bereft," Sanskrit arbhah "weak, child," Armenian orb "orphan," Old Irish orbe "heir," Old Church Slavonic rabu "slave," rabota "servitude" (see robot), Gothic arbja, German erbe, Old English ierfa "heir," Old High German arabeit, German Arbeit "work," Old Frisian arbed, Old English earfoð "hardship, suffering, trouble"). As an adjective from late 15c.
Wiktionary
1 deprive of parents (also (term: orphaned)). 2 (context by extension figuratively English) Remaining after the removal of some form of support. n. 1 A person, especially a minor#Noun, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died. 2 A young animal with no mother. 3 (context figuratively English) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise#Noun or decision to abandon. 4 (context typography English) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page. 5 (context computing English) Any unreferenced object. v
1 (context transitive English) To deprive of parents (''used almost exclusively in the passive'') 2 (context transitive computing English) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
WordNet
v. deprive of parents
adj. deprived of parents by death or desertion [syn: orphaned]
n. a child who has lost both parents
someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
a young animal without a mother
Wikipedia
An orphan is one who has lost both parents.
Orphan may also refer to:
The term orphan car accurately applies to any marque of motor vehicle built by a manufacturer that has discontinued business entirely. The term is sometimes inaccurately applied to a discontinued marque from a still-existing vehicle manufacturer (e.g. Oldsmobile) or a sub-marque (e.g. Thunderbird). In the case of a revived marque where a newer company resuscitates a discontinued brand (e.g. Maybach), only the original vehicles are accurately considered orphans.
Orphan is the third full-length album by American indie-rock band Empires, released in 2014.
Orphan is a 2009 American psychological horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra from a screenplay by David Leslie Johnson. The film stars Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, and Isabelle Fuhrman. The plot centers on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a mysterious 9-year-old girl.
Orphan was produced by Joel Silver and Susan Downey of Dark Castle Entertainment, and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran of Appian Way Productions. The film was released theatrically in the United States on July 24, 2009 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Some critics compared Fuhrman's performance as Esther to that of Linda Blair in The Exorcist and Patty McCormack in The Bad Seed.
An orphan (from the Greek ορφανός orfanós) is a child whose parents are dead or have abandoned them permanently. In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant. If she has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition.
Adults can also be referred to as orphan, or adult orphans. However, those who reached adulthood before their parents died are normally not called orphans; the term is generally reserved for children whose parents have died while they are too young to support themselves.
Orphan is the debut album by the Florida-based nu metal/ alternative metal music group Darwin's Waiting Room. The album was released on July 24, 2001 via MCA. The album peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart that year.
Usage examples of "orphan".
When the core group claimed the herds, we added adoptees from other Clans, orphans and younglings who had some problems and wanted a fresh start.
And I recommend to them that, while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.
The Baudelaire orphans looked around them, and huddled together as if they were still in a dark hallway instead of outdoors in broad daylight, standing amid the ashy ruins of their destroyed home.
Gentle and friendly, like that tonsil doctor who used to visit the orphan asylum when Bingo was seven.
Margaret held out her arms for the little orphan, but she shrank from them closer to Boshy, who gripped her hand.
It was natural, afterward, that Halla and Moran continued on to Crom Hold, just as it was natural that Moran had collected a new group of children, orphaned or Shunned.
Then nought would do but he must say farewell to several of the children who had become especial favorites: the Dalt boy and Lady Blackmonts brood and the round-faced orphan girl whose father had sold cloth and spices up and down the Greenblood.
Furthermore, the Feoffees still help the poor and afflicted, particularly orphans and deprived children.
A ropy mass of neurons, interlaced with augmentations of my jugular vein and my two carotid arteries, extended from beneath my orphaned medulla and stretched across four feet of empty space before disappearing into my reopened fontanel, the whole arrangement shielded from microbial contamination by a flexible plastic tube.
He seemed grimmer and gaunter than ever that morning, and as he looked around the great Hall, he shook his head at its faded grandeur reprehensively, as if he could, if time permitted, deliver a sermon on the prodigality, the wicked wastefulness, which had brought ruin on the house, and rendered it necessary for him to extend his charity to the penniless orphan.
Virgin so as not to tear her gossamery maidenhead, the frangibility of which was likened by Thomas the Rhymer unto that of crisp silk, and whose rupture would have detheologized the Western World, catastrophically orphaning us all.
He had arranged everything for the continuation of my musical education, but, as he was preparing himself for his departure, my father died very suddenly, after a short illness, and I was left an orphan.
He was an orphan and some agency basically sold him to the Hickles, like a slave.
I know it is the clear decision of the heavenly spheres that Senor Don Quixote should once again put into effect his original and noble thoughts, and it would weigh heavily on my conscience if I did not convey to this knight and persuade him that the strength of his valiant arm and the virtue of his valorous spirit should tarry and be constrained no more, for delay thwarts the righting of wrongs, the defense of orphans, the honoring of damsels, the favoring of widows, the protection of married women, and other things of this nature that touch on, relate to, depend on, and are attached to the order of errant chivalry.
She went into the hospitium every day to work, and the monks, in payment, reluctantly handed over cloth bags full of food for her orphans.