A child who has been deprived of parental care and has not been adopted.
A young animal without a mother.
One that lacks support, supervision, or care: A lack of corporate interest has made the subsidiary an orphan.
An orphan technology or product.
A line of type beginning a new paragraph at the bottom of a column or page.
A short line of type at the bottom of a paragraph, column, or page; a widow.
Deprived of parents.
Intended for orphans: an orphan home.
Lacking support, supervision, or care.
Not developed or marketed, especially on account of being commercially unprofitable: "an aggregation of every orphan technology at the Pentagon, stuff that's been around for years that nobody would buy” ( Harper's).
To deprive (a child or young animal) of a parent or parents.