orphans' asylum

1. 1.

   a public institution for the care of orphans

   Synonymsorphanage

   Broaderinstitution

Questions about orphans' asylum

What does orphans' asylum mean?

orphans' asylum means "a public institution for the care of orphans".

What is another word for orphans' asylum?

Close synonyms include orphanage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orphans' asylum a common word?

orphans' asylum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.