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orphan
English
Alternative forms
- orphane (obsolete)
Etymology
Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?órb?os.
Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (árbha), Latin orbus (“orphaned”), Old High German erbi, arbi (German Erbe (“heir”)), Old English ierfa (“heir”). More at erf.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???f?n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???f?n/
- Rhymes: -??(?)f?n
- Homophone: often (non-rhotic accents with the lot–cloth split)
Noun
orphan (plural orphans)
- A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
- A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
- A young animal with no mother.
- (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
- (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
- (computing) Any unreferenced object.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
orphan (not comparable)
- Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
- (by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
Translations
Related terms
- orphan drug
Verb
orphan (third-person singular simple present orphans, present participle orphaning, simple past and past participle orphaned)
- (transitive) To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
- (transitive, computing) To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.
Conjugation
References
- "orphan" at OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Orphan in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- harp on
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unchild
English
Etymology
un- +? child
Verb
unchild (third-person singular simple present unchilds, present participle unchilding, simple past and past participle unchilded)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make someone childless.
- c. 1605-1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, Scene VI
- Though in this city he
- Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one,
- Which to this hour bewail the injury,
- Yet he shall have a noble memory.
- c. 1605-1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, Scene VI
Related terms
- unchilding
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