What does Orphaned mean?
Definitions for Orphaned
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Princeton's WordNet
orphanedadjective
deprived of parents by death or desertion
Wiktionary
orphanedadjective
Abandoned
I found an orphaned project, half-completed before its author quit, and decided to finish it.
Wikipedia
orphaned
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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orphaned
Orphaned generally refers to someone or something that has lost its parent or parents, or owner, or source of support and guidance, often leaving it alone, abandoned or without necessary care and supervision. It can apply to a child whose parents have died, or it can also be used metaphorically to describe something that has been neglected, abandoned or lacks proper management; for example, orphaned projects, orphaned files in computing etc.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Orphaned in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Orphaned in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of Orphaned in a Sentence
War is a misery. Not all that long ago, and perhaps you find this silly, but I would think 'perhaps I killed a young lad, perhaps I orphaned children, perhaps I widowed a woman or made a mother cry', i didn't want that, I'm not a bad man. You kill a man who's done nothing to you, that's war and you do it for your country.
We can't say it enough : Wild animals are not pets, feeding deer habituates them to humans. They lose their fear of humans and that leads to these outcomes that are tragic for both wildlife and people. Injured and orphaned wildlife should be taken to licensed wildlife rehabilitators.
Democrats have nothing left to play but the race card given a year of devastating crime, open borders, appeasement of our enemies, and failed COVID policies, so you accuse the grandson of an orphaned poor West Texas farmer who lost his farm in the Depression of ‘white privilege’ and you go back to race-bating. Par for the course.
A group [ of orphaned children ] were taken by bus from Lviv [ on Monday ] straight to Austria.
I was in the Soviet Union, where there was no academic freedom, and this was a mandatory assigned topic, my grandmother was orphaned because Stalin sent her entire family to Siberia and they died there… I was 18, and within a year I became an anti-communist like most of my classmates. We were reading stuff that was prohibited. We were listening to Pink Floyd, which was illegal.
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