orphanage
noun/ˈɔːfənɪdʒ/
/ˈɔːrfənɪdʒ/
- a home for children whose parents are dead
- She was brought up in an orphanage.
- He spent most of his childhood in an orphanage.
- My sister and I were adopted from an orphanage.
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