orphanage
Origin of orphanage
Related Words for orphanage
foundation, school, business, institute, academy, university, system, society, clinic, hospital, establishment, company, association, hut, dormitory, apartment, dwelling, palace, resort, shelterExamples from the Web for orphanage
Contemporary Examples of orphanage
By day, she cares for her children in a bombed-out milk factory that hosts her orphanage, Okutiuka.
The last time Xido was at the orphanage in 2012, money was running out and there was only bread to eat for a few days.
In 2012, Nicholas and Chris Grava worked at an orphanage in an impoverished area in Cape Town, South Africa.
Three big sunflowers were lying on the still fresh imprint of a human body in the soil in the orphanage yard.
Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?
Historical Examples of orphanage
After dinner she went off to Westminster in search of the orphanage.
The ChristianHall Caine
But I stopped long enough at the orphanage to ask about the poor baby.
HighacresJane Abbott
The next time she came to the hospital, Kate had much to ask her about the Orphanage.
DaybreakFlorence A. Sitwell
That home of affluence was not mine,—it was only the asylum of my first days of orphanage.
Ernest LinwoodCaroline Lee Hentz
For several years they had supported a little girl at an orphanage.
For the Sake of the SchoolAngela Brazil
orphanage
- an institution for orphans and abandoned children
- the state of being an orphan