orphanage
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈɔrfənɪdʒ/
:
orfandad
- I don't want to go to an orphanage.
- leave the orphanage
- back in the orphanage
- come from the orphanage
Examples
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After my parents passed away, I spent most of my childhood in an orphanage with other children who had lost their families.
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She was raised in a state orphanage.
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I said I grew up in an orphanage.
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My parents died when I was 4, and until I was 12 I lived in an orphanage.
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He lived for a year and a half in an orphanage when his - his father was serving a jail term for forgery.
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The kids even sang me a welcome song (one that they used to sing at their old orphanage when greeting teams!).
Blog text (6) -
Oh, yeah—in the orphanage they constantly told me I looked like a princess!
Fiction book (1997) -
She organized a charity event to raise funds for the orphanage that provides shelter and education for abandoned children.
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Living in an orphanage taught me the values of friendship and resilience amidst hardships.
Synonyms
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7.3
A situation when someone loses both parents because they died
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Orphanage can also mean the 'state' of having no parents; it joins orphan 'a child without parents' with the ending -age, which can mean 'state' or 'condition'. So, orphanage can be used for the experience of having no living parents.