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Definition: Orphaned |
OrphanedAdjective1. Deprived of parents by death or desertion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "orphaned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonym: OrphanedSynonym: orphan (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Orphaned |
| English words defined with "orphaned": foster home ♦ waif. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "orphaned": ANIMAL-NURSERY WORKER ♦ children's zoo caretaker ♦ LAMBER ♦ orphaned i-node ♦ Work Needed and Prospective Packages. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When I was a little boy, I was orphaned. Two missionaries like you took care of me, put me in school (The Other Side of Heaven; writing credit: Mitch Davis; John H. Groberg) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Orphaned polar bear cubs - Ursus maritimus - being sent to zoo. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Orphaned fox cubs. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Baby Mice" by Louise Ingram Commentary: "Two orphaned mice." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Mongolia | NGO's continued to assist orphaned and abandoned children. (references) |
Liberia | An estimated 50,000 children were killed; many more were injured, orphaned, or abandoned. (references) | |
Uganda | Estimates placed the number of orphaned children (children missing either parent are considered orphans) at up to 1.7 million. (references) | |
Women | Rwanda | These organizations were extremely active in promoting women's concerns, particularly those faced by widows, orphaned girls, and households headed by children. (references) |
Worker Rights | Angola | Poverty and social upheavals have brought large numbers of orphaned and abandoned children, as well as runaways, into unregulated urban employment in the informal sector. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Orphaned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 48.75% of the time. "Orphaned" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 48.75% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 35% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 12.5% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "orphaned": be orphaned. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "orphaned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që u'bë jetim, që s'ka prindërit. (various references) | |
Arabic | ميتم (orphanage), متيتم (lonely). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | останал без родители, осиротял (unparented). (various references) | |
Chinese | 使成为孤儿 (Orphaning). (various references) | |
Czech | osiřelý (orphan). (various references) | |
Finnish | jäädä orvoksi (be orphaned). (various references) | |
French | orphelin (orphan), orphélin. (various references) | |
German | verwaist (abandoned, becomes an orphan, deserted, orphan). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיותם (isolated, lonely). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elárvult, árva (orphan, unparented). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 親に早く死なれる (to be orphaned while still young), 交通遺児 (child orphaned from a traffic accident), 幼にして孤となる (to be orphaned in one's babyhood). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おやにはやくしなれる (to be orphaned while still young), こうつういじ (child orphaned from a traffic accident), ようにしてことなる (to be orphaned in one's babyhood). (various references) | |
Korean | 고아로 만드는. (various references) | |
Manx | treoghe (widowed). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orphaneday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tornado órfão, órfão (fatherless, orphan). (various references) | |
Romanian | orfan (fatherless, orphan). (various references) | |
Russian | осиротелый (lorn). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji je bez roditelja. (various references) | |
Spanish | huérfano (kiddy, orphan). (various references) | |
Turkish | yetim kalmış, öksüz kalmış. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | осиротілий. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | orphanos. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Orphaned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: orhpaned, orphane, orphanned, orphee, Pokphand, Rophaien. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "orphaned" (pronounced ô"rfund) |
| 4 | -f u n d | siphoned, softened, stiffened, toughened. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, slackened, soland, stationed, steepened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: aproned, operand, padrone, pandore. | |
-2 letters: daphne, dehorn, hadron, harden, harped, horned, orphan, pander, pardon, phoned, ponder, repand. | |
-3 letters: adore, adorn, anode, apron, arpen, denar, doper, drape, drone, ephod, ephor, hared, heard, heron, hoard, honda, honed, honer, hoped, hoper, horde, oared, opera, oread, padre, paeon, paned, pared, pareo, pedro, phone, pored, prone, radon, raped. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: harpooned. | |
+2 letters: chaperoned, hydrophane, hydroplane, parenthood, radiophone. | |
+3 letters: handyperson, hydrophanes, hydroplaned, hydroplanes, monographed, openhearted, parenthoods, pentahedron, philodendra, radiophones. | |
+4 letters: handypersons, pentahedrons, perichondral, perichondria, unchaperoned. | |
+5 letters: cephaloridine, commandership, landownership, openheartedly, photoengraved, trapezohedron. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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