orphan
noun
a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
half-orphan
-
a word derived from
orphan.
Example Sentences
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“You’ve got another half-orphan on your hands, Ruth,” said Helen.
From Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point by Alice B. Emerson
Another glimpse of the home life—if home life such experience can be called—of this half-orphan, homeless Genevan boy:
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
The half-orphan becomes orphan entire, not by the death, but by the withdrawing, of the father.
From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson
She is a half-orphan, too, and I have a kind of idea that her father is not to say so intimate with his daughter as some other fathers who shall be nameless.
From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
He was a half-orphan, and had to take care of his old mother till she died and left him all alone.
From Dixie Hart by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
