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  1. orphans

    An orphan (from the Greek: ορφανός, romanized: orphanós) is a child whose parents have died.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 (i.e. if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition).

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of orphans in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of orphans in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of orphans in a Sentence

  1. Jerrod Milton:

    Challenges are what we deal with when it comes to pediatric medicine. We consider most of the kids that we take care of as somewhat therapeutic orphans, it’s just another one of the myriad of shortages that we have to deal with, I guess.

  2. Howard Stern:

    It also looks like it’sGayle Kingand about 20 young ladies from Africa who are orphans or something.

  3. Edna Molewa:

    The ultimate aim is for the orphans to be integrated back into a normally functioning breeding population.

  4. Dinabandhu Das:

    Even if the children live with their grandparents, they feel neglected and depressed. These are the new-age orphans.

  5. Colleen Thompson:

    There are [ orphans ] being taken out of Ukraine who are not accounted for.

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