English dictionary: words starting with orph
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nounA child whose parents are dead.
Usage examples:
He was left an orphan as a small boy
verbMake (a child) an orphan.
Usage examples:
John was orphaned at 12
nounA 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.
nounA 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.
nounThe state or condition of being an orphan; orphanhood.
nounThe state or condition of being an orphan; orphanhood.
verbMake (a child) an orphan.
Usage examples:
John was orphaned at 12
nounA child whose parents are dead.
Usage examples:
He was left an orphan as a small boy
adjectiveHaving 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…
verbMake (a child) an orphan.
Usage examples:
John was orphaned at 12
nounA child whose parents are dead.
Usage examples:
He was left an orphan as a small boy
nounThe condition of being an orphan; orphanhood.
verbTo orphan; to abandon.
nounA child whose parents are dead.
Usage examples:
He was left an orphan as a small boy
verbMake (a child) an orphan.
Usage examples:
John was orphaned at 12
nounThe state or condition of being an orphan; orphanhood.
nounA stringed instrument of the 16th and 17th centuries, resembling a bandora but tuned like an ordinary lute.
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Other plucked instruments (e.g. chitarrone, mandolin, orpharion, theorbo) used reduced or expanded …
adjectiveRelating to or characteristic of the poet orpheus, especially in being melodious or entrancing.
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They were entranced by the orphean skill he displayed
proper nounA 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.
nounIn greek mythology (= ancient stories), a poet who sang and played the lyre (= a musical instrument with a u-shaped frame and strings)
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Orpheus wanted to rescue his bride, eurydice, from the underworld after she was bitten by a deadly …
adjectiveRelating to orpheus or orphism.
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We usually think of the orphic myth as a story about the artist's deadly gaze and the power of his …
adverbIn an orphic manner; oracularly.
nounOrphism.
nounA 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.
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Orpheus and orphism: cosmology and sacrifice at the boundary.
nounAn ornamental stripe or border, especially one on an ecclesiastical vestment such as a chasuble.
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Saints embroidered in metallic and silk threads decorate the orphrey, the ornamental band along the…
adjectiveEmbroidered with gold; adorned with orphrey; bordered with an orphrey.
nounAn 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…
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