Chiefly in Italy: a hospital or school for orphans and foundlings. Now historical.

A hospital or asylum for orphans; an orphanage. In quot. 1711 apparently: the support and care of orphans.

= orphan asylum n.

A hospital or asylum for orphans; an orphanage.

= orphan asylum n.

an institution for the reception of foundlings.

an orphanage.

a residential institution for children who are orphaned, abandoned, or otherwise vulnerable.

An institution or home for orphans. (Now the usual sense.)

An institution for the care and education of destitute or delinquent children.

Orphans collectively; (also) a home for orphans, an orphanage.

a home for the orphans of police officers.

attributive, esp. in Pestalozzi village (also Pestalozzi children's village). Designating any of several communities of refugee and homeless…