Associations to the word «Orphanage»

Wiktionary

ORPHANAGE, noun. A public institution for the care and protection of orphans.
ORPHANAGE, noun. (obsolete) Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.

Dictionary definition

ORPHANAGE, noun. The condition of being a child without living parents; "his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult".
ORPHANAGE, noun. A public institution for the care of orphans.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne