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ORPHANHOOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does orphanhood mean?
• ORPHANHOOD (noun)
The noun ORPHANHOOD has 1 sense:
1. the condition of being a child without living parents
Familiarity information: ORPHANHOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The condition of being a child without living parents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
orphanage; orphanhood
Context example:
his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult
Hypernyms ("orphanhood" is a kind of...):
condition (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing)
Context examples
But there were some differences between Em'ly's orphanhood and mine, it appeared.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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