orphanedadj.
/ˈɔːfnd/, U.S. /ˈɔrf(ə)nd/ 1.
a. Made or left an orphan through bereavement or desertion.
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the world > life > death > cause of death > bereavement by death > [adjective] > of parents
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1605 W. Alexander Alexandræan Trag. iv. ii First orphanid, widdow'd, and vncluded last, A daughter, wife, and mother all accurst.
1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xx. 195 I, even this very day, have left many servants orphaned, and quite destitute of a master.
1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances II. cclxxiii. 241 He is orphan'd both of Father and Mother.
1827 W. M. Praed Arminius vii The sobs of orphaned infancy.
1874 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens III. 64 To save the orphaned girl from trouble.
1901 R. C. Lehmann Anni Fugaces 135 The last Great Auk..left..Two orphaned Auklets in their shell.
1943 National Geographic Mag. Dec. 767/1 He cares for about 30 homeless or orphaned children, sends them to the school he started, and brings them up to be Christian gentlefolk.
1992 T. Morrison Jazz 139 She had brought her servant and an orphaned baby she fancied to Baltimore.
b. Of or relating to such a state; characteristic of an orphan.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > having (specific) parents > having no parents
orphelin?a1425
orphanc1450
orphenin1480
orbate?1520
parentless1561
unparented1668
orphaned1799
1799 R. B. Sheridan Pizarro ii. iv To dry the widowed and the orphaned tear of those Whose brave protectors have perished in their country's cause.
1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. 4 Their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
1882 I. Mayo Mrs. Raven's Temptation III. 43 Could he presume on Alice's orphaned loneliness.
1997 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Oct. vii. 9/1 Harold Brodkey..was obsessed with his own orphaned state and with the haunting, multiple voices of the past.
2. figurative.
a. Of a thing: abandoned, forgotten, destitute; separated from a ‘parent’, or others of its kind.
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1630 W. Drummond Cypresse Groue in Flowres of Sion (rev. ed.) To King 104 Religion, Orphan'd, waileth o're thy Vrne.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year I. xxvii. 106 The orphan'd realm threw wide her gates.
1948 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety iii. 69 Helpless objects, an orphaned quarry, A waif of works, a widowed engine.
1975 J. Marshall Private Place 23 She still lives much as before in the bottom flat of the high, orphaned half-house she owns just off Church Street.
1993 Harper's Mag. July 36/2 The yellow ceramic umbrella stand, crammed with hawthorne walking sticks and houseguests' orphaned umbrellas.
b. U.S. slang. Of a model of motor vehicle: discontinued. Cf. orphan n. 2b.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [adjective] > of or relating to motor vehicles > discontinued model
orphaned1920
1920 F. B. Scholl Automobile Owner's Guide 3 Orphaned cars may run as well..as anybody could ask for, but when a company fails or discontinues to manufacture a model, the car immediately loses from one-third to one-half of its natural value.
1998 Orlando Sentinel (Nexis) 1 Dec. b1 Long after those marques passed into history or withdrew from the market, customers could still take their orphaned cars to his dealership on Colonial Drive for parts and service.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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