orphan 
or·phan (ôr′fən)
noun
a child whose father and mother are dead: sometimes applied to a child who has lost only one parent by death
Etymology: LL(Ec) orphanus < Gr orphanos < IE base *orbho-, orphan > L orbus, bereft, Ger erbe, inheritance, arbeit, work, Czech robotnik, serf
adjective
- being an orphan
- of or for orphans an orphan home
- of a product that is medically valuable but is not produced because it lacks a profitable market, as a drug for a rare disease
transitive verb
to cause to become an orphan orphaned by the war
Object
- cub: Even worse, they find an orphaned badger cub.
- foal: TUESDAY 19th Introduced powdered mares milk replacer to orphan foal 's feed.
- chimpanzee: Save the rainforests and feed orphaned chimpanzees for free!
- hedgehog: We frequently travel for quite some distance to collect sick, poorly or orphaned hedgehogs, where no local carer can be found.
- elephant: It will continue the joyful theme of orphaned elephants eagerly running toward their daily mud bathes.
- fiber: The phenomenon of terminal axon sprouting makes it possible for an uninvolved or recovered motor neuron to " adopt " these orphaned muscle fibers.
Converse of object
- adopt: They adopted 14 orphans from surrounding villages, taking care of them at their own expense.
- rescue: Then Mr Brownlow hurries the rescued orphan away; they leave Fagin a raving lunatic.
Preposition: at
- age: She had been orphaned at the age of 13.
Adjective modifier
- Romanian: Initial requests for help in caring for Romanian orphans came through CRY's Romanian church connections.
- homeless: Advocate for unemployed, displaced and homeless, orphans and teenage mothers.
- poor: I am trying to transfer money to you to help out two poor little orphans in distress.
Modifies a noun
- foal: Young stock and orphan foals When handling young stock, in particular, it is important not to ' spoil ' them.
- designation: In addition, the European Commission granted TransMID TM orphan designation in March 2002.
- chimpanzee: Last year Born Free, with four other wildlife groups, created a sanctuary for nineteen orphan chimpanzees on Ngamba island, Uganda.
- medicinal: It has been designated as an orphan medicinal product.
- lamb: Help feed orphan lambs or watch newborn calves take their first steps.
- girl: The stranger said, " You are thinking of building a village for orphan girls at Ilford, are you not?
Noun used with modifier
- tsunami: Do you want to have adopted a tsunami orphan away from that culture and deny a mother the chance of re-finding her baby?
Preposition: in
- disaster: Children orphaned in boat disaster Water load of bother!
The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses grey, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried byan orphan boy, The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry.
Chutzpahöthat quality which enables a man who has murdered his mother and father to throw himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
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