资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Orphan \Or"phan\, n. [L. orphanus, Gr. ?, akin to L. orbus. Cf.
   {Orb} a blank window.]
   A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also,
   a child who has but one parent living.

   {Orphans' court} (Law), a court in some of the States of the
      Union, having jurisdiction over the estates and persons of
      orphans or other wards. --Bouvier.