Meaning

6 senses
  1. A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.

    Waise, Vollwaise, Halbwaise

    сирота́sirotá, сиро́ткаsirótka

    сирота́syrotá

    a child who has lost both parents

  2. A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.

  3. A young animal with no mother.

    a young animal without a mother

  4. (figuratively)Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.

  5. A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.

    Schusterjunge

    the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column

  6. Any unreferenced object.

Examples

136 sentences
  1. He adopted the orphan.

    Він усиновив сироту. — deniko

    ruОн усыновил сироту. — ivanov

    deEr adoptierte das Waisenkind. — al_ex_an_der

  2. Tom is an orphan.

    Том сирота. — deniko

    ruТом - сирота. — sharptoothed

    deTom ist ein Waise. — mrtaistoi

  3. I'm an orphan.

    Я сирота. — deniko

    ruЯ сирота. — marafon

    deIch bin ein Waisenkind. — Espi

  4. People took pity on the orphan.

  5. Tom and Mary are now orphans.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person whose (parent or) parents have died:
Русский
By meaning 1
person whose (parent or) parents have died:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
person whose (parent or) parents have died:
single line of type at the bottom of page:

Origin

Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “with

Late Middle English, from Late Latin orphanus, from Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos.

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