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orphan::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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orphan
She has taken a job as a governess following a difficult childhood as an orphan.
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In this fantasy set in 1930s Paris, an orphan secretly lives in a train station.
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Some Chinese wanting an earthquake orphan pointed out their financial stability.
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Shinsky, recovering from neck cancer and 33 radiation treatments, was an orphan.
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Say you're an orphan, a couple has adopted you and you think you have no family.
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Enter Evey, an orphan, and V, a costumed vigilante who takes an interest in her.
From the guardian.co.uk
Hundreds more become orphan homes after the death of owners with no next of kin.
From the smh.com.au
So rather than success having many fathers, this one, apparently, is an orphan.
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There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
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- A child who has lost both parents
- Deprive of parents
- Someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
- The first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
- A young animal without a mother
- An orphan (from the Greek u03BFu03C1u03C6u03B1u03BDu03CCu03C2 orfanu00F3s) is a child whose parents are dead or have abandoned them permanently. In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant. If she has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition.
- Orphan is an album on MCA records, recorded in 2001 by Darwin's Waiting Room.
- The term orphan car accurately applies to any marque of motor vehicle built by a manufacturer that has discontinued business entirely. (The term is sometimes inaccurately applied to a discontinued marque from a still-existing vehicle manufacturer (i.e. Oldsmobile) or a sub-marque (i.e. ...
- Mister Sensitive (real name Andrew Smith) is a fictional character from Marvel Comics, who was a prominent castmember in the X-Statix series. He first appeared in X-Force vol. 1 #117 and was created by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred.
