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Definition of orphanage in English: orphanagenoun ˈɔːf(ə)nɪdʒˈɔrf(ə)nɪdʒ 1A residential institution for the care and education of orphans. Example sentencesExamples - They will then be taken to the government-run children's homes and orphanages and provided with an education.
- Most of these are operating charities, such as the Red Cross, or orphanages, rather than cash-generating schemes.
- In this way, the children are not sent off to orphanages or big institutions, but remain part of the community.
- Linda and Sandy were brought up in orphanages and by foster parents in America who cut the girls' links with their Southampton family.
- For two weeks, the under fives brought in soaps, toothbrushes, toothpaste and small gifts to send to the orphanages of Romania.
- The children she visits at 45 orphanages are not really orphans at all.
- The number of orphanages and other similar institutions should be known to the State and Central Governments.
- In China, many of them are living in institutions, orphanages or homes where their parents cannot manage.
- The trust offers work experience in orphanages, hospitals and schools as well as environmental development projects.
- They will be handed out to children in orphanages, hospitals, special schools and street shelters for homeless youngsters.
- The group is travelling to Romania on June 20 to work in two orphanages.
- If no one had use for the 43,000 bags, why couldn't they be donated to orphanages or even to the growing army of street kids?
- For two weeks they will be involved in building work, painting, decorating and gardening at the privately owned orphanages.
- A few end up in orphanages, who then pass them on to people from the First World who are desperate for children.
- More than 100,000 children still live in state care, many in grim orphanages.
- On festive days, food and sweets are distributed to the children and inmates of orphanages by the club.
- Orphans from orphanages in northeastern Bulgaria work on the farm and produce milk from the cows.
- Some children are abandoned and end up in orphanages, which have a difficult time caring for them.
- So Robert carried on with his humanitarian work in schools and orphanages, but he worked towards raising the money for the hospital too.
- She spent her childhood in orphanages, reform schools, and mental institutions.
2archaic mass noun The state or condition of being an orphan. Example sentencesExamples - A woman with AIDS, whose child faces not just the risk of early orphanage, but an early death.
Definition of orphanage in US English: orphanagenounˈɔrf(ə)nɪdʒˈôrf(ə)nij 1A residential institution for the care and education of orphans. Example sentencesExamples - They will be handed out to children in orphanages, hospitals, special schools and street shelters for homeless youngsters.
- On festive days, food and sweets are distributed to the children and inmates of orphanages by the club.
- The children she visits at 45 orphanages are not really orphans at all.
- For two weeks, the under fives brought in soaps, toothbrushes, toothpaste and small gifts to send to the orphanages of Romania.
- Linda and Sandy were brought up in orphanages and by foster parents in America who cut the girls' links with their Southampton family.
- If no one had use for the 43,000 bags, why couldn't they be donated to orphanages or even to the growing army of street kids?
- Some children are abandoned and end up in orphanages, which have a difficult time caring for them.
- She spent her childhood in orphanages, reform schools, and mental institutions.
- A few end up in orphanages, who then pass them on to people from the First World who are desperate for children.
- More than 100,000 children still live in state care, many in grim orphanages.
- The trust offers work experience in orphanages, hospitals and schools as well as environmental development projects.
- The group is travelling to Romania on June 20 to work in two orphanages.
- In China, many of them are living in institutions, orphanages or homes where their parents cannot manage.
- So Robert carried on with his humanitarian work in schools and orphanages, but he worked towards raising the money for the hospital too.
- For two weeks they will be involved in building work, painting, decorating and gardening at the privately owned orphanages.
- Orphans from orphanages in northeastern Bulgaria work on the farm and produce milk from the cows.
- They will then be taken to the government-run children's homes and orphanages and provided with an education.
- The number of orphanages and other similar institutions should be known to the State and Central Governments.
- Most of these are operating charities, such as the Red Cross, or orphanages, rather than cash-generating schemes.
- In this way, the children are not sent off to orphanages or big institutions, but remain part of the community.
- 1.1archaic The state or condition of being an orphan.
Example sentencesExamples - A woman with AIDS, whose child faces not just the risk of early orphanage, but an early death.
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