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orphanages

orphanages is the plural of orphanage.

Meaning of orphanage

Noun

orphanage (countable and uncountable, plural orphanages)

  1. A residential institution for the care and protection of orphans.
    • Near-synonym: children's home (not always different)
  2. (obsolete) Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.

Questions about orphanages

What is orphanages the plural of?
Orphanages is the plural of orphanage.

Words near orphanages in the dictionary

  1. orphan's court
  2. orphan's courts
  3. orphan-crushing machine
  4. orphan-crushing machines
  5. orphanage
  6. orphanages
  7. orphanarium
  8. orphanariums
  9. orphancy
  10. orphandom
  11. orphandoms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orphanages (page history and authors); orphanage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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