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paternal orphans

paternal orphans is the plural of paternal orphan.

Meaning of paternal orphan

Noun

paternal orphan (plural paternal orphans)

  1. A child whose father has died.

Questions about paternal orphans

What is paternal orphans the plural of?
Paternal orphans is the plural of paternal orphan.

Words near paternal orphans in the dictionary

  1. paternal half aunt
  2. paternal half aunts
  3. paternal half-uncle
  4. paternal half-uncles
  5. paternal orphan
  6. paternal orphans
  7. paternal uncle
  8. paternal uncles
  9. paternalisation
  10. paternalise
  11. paternalised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paternal orphans (page history and authors); paternal orphan (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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