- Bereaved child
- Child whose parents are dead
- Child without living parents
- Foundling
- Guttersnipe
- Harp on about Little Annie, for example
- Harp on about parentless child
- Children’s home
- Waif's home
- Waif’s home
- Where waifs may live roughly on rag heap
- The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans,
collectively.
- An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.