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Entry 3 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Orphan

/ôr'-fən/ · Or·phan · IPA /ˈɔɹfən/
01 n. A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
  1. 1.
    A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
Phrases & compounds
Orphans' court — a court in some of the States of the Union, having jurisdiction over the estates and persons of orphans or other wards.
02 a. Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
  1. 1.
    Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
03 v. t. To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
imp. & p. p. Orphaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Orphaning
  1. 1.
    To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.