Word Type

Noun

Verb

Adjective

The word "orphan" can be used as noun, verb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

adopted

Created By

giving child away killing childs parents

Defined As

child whose natural parents absent or dead

Derived Terms

deorphanized double orphan elder orphan half orphan half-orphan maternal orphan nonorphan orphan John orphan acronym orphan asylum orphan disease orphan drug orphan initialism orphan medicine orphan off orphan page orphan receptor orphan source orphan star orphan tears orphan train orphan work orphan work orphan-crushing machine orphanage orphanarium orphancy orphandom orphaner orphanet orphanhood orphanish orphanism orphanity orphanize orphanlike orphanotrophism orphanotrophy orphanry orphanship orphany paper orphan paternal orphan social orphan war orphan

Etymologically Related To

erf

Has Part

no parents

Context

computing typography used almost exclusively in passive

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

child deprive divest fry individual kid line minor mortal nestling nipper offspring person shaver small fry somebody someone soul strip tiddler tike tyke young youngster

Type Of (IsA)

animal child line person young

Manner Of

deprive

Related Terms

orphan drug

Related Terms

animal bottom column deprive line mother orphan drug orphaned page paragraph parent person pointer reference single support type unavailable young

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.