orphanage
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- noun
- /ˈɔrfənɪdʒ/
:
orfanato
- All of the children resided in orphanages for a minimum of 12 months prior to adoption.
- children in orphanages
- a orphanage
- placed in an orphanage
I was going to go to a police station and that Nikita was going to be put in a orphanage.
- I was going to go to a police station and that Nikita was going to be put in a orphanage.
- Like the the whole book is just him meeting these children and spending this month on an island where the orphanage is.
- And in the Queen's Gambit, I know we we took some time and the back story wasn't always clear why she was in the orphanage.
- We could talk about caretakers of many other sorts as well, which could include other family members, could be people within an orphanage.
- I think it's still a non profit and the the founder used to be an orphan, so a big percentage of the profits go towards orphanages.
- How can you help schools or orphanages of feed the you can't, you need wealth.
- What was the first step was an orphanage?
- Sorry, oops, in a in an orphanage dose.
- No one ever says take these toy donations to the orphanage and avoid security cameras.
- So now monastery is became like a, like a, you know, orphanage.
Examples
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American children whose poor parents die of AIDS are placed in public orphanages, not always pleasant places.
Academic text (1993) -
Long ago, this palazzo was an orphanage.
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So we'll send him back there next summer to work at this orphanage for two weeks.
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One child was reported to have been in an orphanage for 12 years.
Academic text (2006) -
"There was a woman outside the orphanage," he forced himself to say.
Fiction book (1998) -
I was headed back to the orphanage where I was raised.
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I worked in the orphanage.
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His parents hid him in a Dutch orphanage, and he never heard from them again.
Fiction book (1998) -
Now, the Armenian government has committed to reducing the number of children living in orphanages and other types of institutions.
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The children at the orphanage are often eager to find loving families to adopt them.
Synonyms
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A home where a child lives when their parents cannot care for them
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A place where children who have no parents live and learn
A place where children without parents live and get care
A place where abandoned newborn babies are taken and cared for
How Caring
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Orphanage comes from orphan 'a child without parents' plus the ending -age, which often makes a place or result, like in village or postage. So, an orphanage is a place where children without parents are cared for.