Orphanage Synonyms

ôrfə-nĭj
A public institution for the care of orphans
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. orphans' home
  2. shelter
  3. children-s-home
  4. halfway house
  5. asylum for orphaned children
  6. orphans' asylum
  7. orphanhood
  8. institution
  9. foundling home

Words Related to Orphanage

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. school
  2. orphan
  3. orphange
  4. Komari
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Orphanage Sentence Examples

  • There is a theatre, an orphanage and a municipal library.

  • Other buildings are the orphanage, the hospital, a house of correction for women and a music hall.

  • The Germans have an orphanage with 300 Armenian children, a carpet factory and a medical station.

  • There is an Anglican convent of the Sisters of St Lawrence, with orphanage and school.

  • There are a large American Mission with schools, orphanage and a resident doctor, a French (Dominican) Mission with schools, and also a branch of the archbishop of Canterbury's Mission to the Nestorian Christians who live in the mountains to the south.

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