How to pronounce “orphan”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• [Adjective]
• Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
• (by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
• [Verb]
• (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.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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