Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the condition of being a child without living parents;
- Example: "his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult"[syn: orphanage, orphanhood]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Orphanhood \Or"phan*hood\, n.
The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
orphanhood
n 1: the condition of being a child without living parents; "his
early orphanage shaped his character as an adult" [syn:
orphanage, orphanhood]