[
UK
/ˈɔːfənɪdʒ/
]
[ US /ˈɔɹfənədʒ/ ]
[ US /ˈɔɹfənədʒ/ ]
NOUN
- a public institution for the care of orphans
-
the condition of being a child without living parents
his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult
How To Use orphanage In A Sentence
- They distribute food, clothing, provisions and other essential items for orphanages and destitute homes and uniform, books and notebooks for poor children.
- A woman responding to a survey about the experience of illegitimates in 1986 said that her mother ‘was put in an orphanage and did not get full knowledge about her parents until she was 55.’
- A group of ex-pats had clubbed together to provide pressies for an orphanage in town and we showed up (with Santa) to deliver.
- Taken from their families and forced to live in "white" orphanages, three mixed-race aborigine children escape, traveling 1500 miles back home, using the title fence as their guide. Cinematical
- We also run another orphanage up the road. Times, Sunday Times
- This orphanage solicits its benevolence of the wealthy people.
- He practiced for weeks," said Scott Lechert, 50, an instructional designer, who along with his partner, Paul Kelly, 55, a physical therapist, adopted Dru from a Romanian orphanage in Sweetness & Light
- He donated a large sum of money to the orphanage.
- These institutions were "industrial schools" "reformatories" and "orphanages"; in other words, the children were considered outcasts and, therefore, expendable. No Wall Between Church and State: Ireland and The Largest Child Abuse Scandal in History
- The choir is central, both to the film and to life at this chronically underfunded orphanage. Times, Sunday Times