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Topic: CHILDREN

Date: 1300-1400
Language: Late Latin
Origin: orphanus, from Greek orphanos

orphan

1 noun
     
or‧phan1 [countable]
SSC a child whose parents are both dead:
The war has left thousands of children as orphans.
orphan girl/boy/child
a poor little orphan girl
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