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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A public institution for the care and protection of children without parents.
  2. n. The condition of being a child without parents.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The state of being an orphan.
  2. n. An institution or home for orphans.
  3. n. Orphans collectively.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A public institution for the care and protection of orphans.
  2. n. obsolete Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.
  2. n. An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the condition of being a child without living parents
  2. n. a public institution for the care of orphans

Etymologies

  1. Attested since the 1570s; orphan +‎ -age. (Wiktionary)

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