English words starting with orp

Meanings of Orphan:

noun

A child whose parents are dead.

Usage examples:

He was left an orphan as a small boy

verb

Make (a child) an orphan.

Usage examples:

John was orphaned at 12

Meanings of Orphanage:

noun

A residential institution for the care and education of orphans.

Usage examples:

Some children are abandoned and end up in orphanages, which have a difficult time caring for them.

Meanings of Orphanages:

noun

A residential institution for the care and education of orphans.

Usage examples:

Some children are abandoned and end up in orphanages, which have a difficult time caring for them.

Meanings of Orphaned:

verb

Make (a child) an orphan.

Usage examples:

John was orphaned at 12

noun

A child whose parents are dead.

Usage examples:

He was left an orphan as a small boy

adjective

Having no parents because they have died

Usage examples:

The family took in three orphaned siblings., the goal of international adoption is to find a home f…

Meanings of Orphanism:

noun

The condition of being an orphan; orphanhood.

Meanings of Orphanize:

verb

To orphan; to abandon.

Meanings of Orphans:

noun

A child whose parents are dead.

Usage examples:

He was left an orphan as a small boy

verb

Make (a child) an orphan.

Usage examples:

John was orphaned at 12

Meanings of Orphanship:

noun

The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanhood.

Meanings of Orpharion:

noun

A stringed instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries, resembling a bandora but tuned like an ordinary lute.

Usage examples:

Other plucked instruments (e.g. chitarrone, mandolin, orpharion, theorbo) used reduced or expanded …

Meanings of Orpheus:

proper noun

A poet who could entrance wild beasts with the beauty of his singing and lyre playing. he went to the underworld after the death of his wife eurydice and secured her release from the dead, but lost her because he failed to obey the condition that he must not look back at her until they had reached the world of the living.

noun

In greek mythology (= ancient stories), a poet who sang and played the lyre (= a musical instrument with a u-shaped frame and strings)

Usage examples:

Orpheus wanted to rescue his bride, eurydice, from the underworld after she was bitten by a deadly …

Meanings of Orphic:

adjective

Relating to orpheus or orphism.

Usage examples:

We usually think of the orphic myth as a story about the artist's deadly gaze and the power of his …

Meanings of Orphically:

adverb

In an orphic manner; oracularly.

Meanings of Orphicism:

noun

Orphism.

Meanings of Orphism:

noun

A mystic religion of ancient greece, originating in the 7th or 6th century bc and based on poems (now lost) attributed to orpheus, emphasizing the necessity for individuals to rid themselves of the evil part of their nature by ritual and moral purification throughout a series of reincarnations.

Usage examples:

Orpheus and orphism: cosmology and sacrifice at the boundary.

Meanings of Orphrey:

noun

An ornamental stripe or border, especially one on an ecclesiastical vestment such as a chasuble.

Usage examples:

Saints embroidered in metallic and silk threads decorate the orphrey, the ornamental band along the…

Meanings of Orphreyed:

adjective

Embroidered with gold; adorned with orphrey; bordered with an orphrey.

Meanings of Orphreys:

noun

An ornamental stripe or border, especially one on an ecclesiastical vestment such as a chasuble.

Usage examples:

Saints embroidered in metallic and silk threads decorate the orphrey, the ornamental band along the…

Meanings of Orpiment:

noun

A bright yellow mineral consisting of arsenic trisulphide, formerly used as a dye and artist's pigment.

Usage examples:

Commonly associated minerals include orpiment, stibnite, a variety of sulfides and sulfosalts, calc…

Meanings of Orpin:

noun

A purple-flowered eurasian stonecrop.

Meanings of Orpine:

noun

A purple-flowered eurasian stonecrop.

Usage examples:

Other customs included decking the house (especially over the front door) with birch, fennel, st. j…

Meanings of Orpines:

noun

A purple-flowered eurasian stonecrop.

Usage examples:

Other customs included decking the house (especially over the front door) with birch, fennel, st. j…

Meanings of Orpington:

noun

A chicken of a buff, white, or black breed.

Usage examples:

The black strain of orpington developed further in the southern hemisphere to become the australorp.

Meanings of Orpins:

noun

A purple-flowered eurasian stonecrop.

Usage examples:

Other customs included decking the house (especially over the front door) with birch, fennel, st. j…