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# orphanage

«orphanage» in Mova's school dictionary: **a home where children who have no parents live and are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (orphanages)

### meaning for a pupil

An orphanage is a home where children who have no parents live and are cared for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orphanage/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a child is sent to an orphanage after losing both parents

### examples

- The children lived in an orphanage in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orphanage/#x1)
- She was adopted from the orphanage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orphanage/#x2)
- The orphanage had a big garden for the children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orphanage/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «orphanage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orphanage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.