hittebarn — meaning in English

English meaning

• foundling noun An abandoned baby or child found and cared for by someone other than its parents.
• orphan noun A child whose parents have both died (or, more loosely, abandoned them).
• waif noun A person, especially a child, who is thin, pale and homeless or uncared for.

Senses

hittebarn is used for these senses in English:

• foundling An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.
• orphan A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
• waif A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.

orphan — full definition

1. noun A child whose parents have both died (or, more loosely, abandoned them).
2. verb To leave a child without parents, usually through death.
3. noun Something left without the support, source, or connection it depended on.

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