orphan
adjective
1. Deprived of parents (also orphaned).
- She is an orphan child.
2. (by extension, figuratively) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.
- With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.
noun
1. a child who has lost both parents
Definition categories: person, child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster
2. someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
Definition categories: person, individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul
3. the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
Definition categories: communication, line
4. a young animal without a mother
verb
1. deprive of parents
Definition categories: possession, deprive, divest, strip
Sentences with orphan as a verb:
- What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
- When you removed that image tag, you orphaned the resized icon.
- Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.