Meaning

1 senses

  1. An orphan whose parents were killed in a war.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Tom is a war orphan.

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  2. He adopted a war orphan and is bringing her up as a foster daughter.

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  3. He is a war orphan.

    deEr ist eine Kriegswaise. — xtofu80

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

plural: war orphans
Singularwar orphan
Pluralwar orphans

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
warphan

Word family

1 related words
Relatedwar widow

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wantonwarA1warblerwarcraftwardB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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