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Orphanage

//ˈɔː(ɹ)fənɪd͡ʒ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A residential institution for the care and protection of orphans. countable, uncountable

    "Near-synonym: children's home (not always different)"

  2. 2
    a public institution for the care of orphans wordnet
  3. 3
    Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  4. 4
    the condition of being a child without living parents wordnet

Etymology

Attested since the 1570s; orphan + -age.

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