Orphan
A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
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Orphan Quotations
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
Albert Schweitzer
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
John Berger
Not everyone can be an orphan.
Andre Gide
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.
Robert Stack
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
Marguerite Young
I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.
Trevor Dunn
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.
Dave Obey
Orphan Translations
orphan in Afrikaans is weeskind, ouerloos
orphan in Dutch is ouderloos
orphan in French is orphelin
orphan in German is Waisenkind, Waise, Waise
orphan in Latin is pupillus pupilla
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