What's the difference between orphanage and orphanhood?
Orphanage
Definition:
(n.) The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.
(n.) An institution or asylum for the care of orphans.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that endoscopy staff, family contacts of Campylobacter pylori-infected patients and people living in closed communities such as psychiatric patients and orphanage children must be considered as risk groups for Campylobacter pylori infection.
(2) Tourists take the children out, to the zoo or downtown,” said the head of one orphanage of 16 children, a small wooden house built on stilts in flooded fields.
(3) An outbreak of acute enteritis in children aged one to thirty-three months occurred from June 10th to 23rd, 1986, at a private orphanage in Matsuyama City.
(4) Geza, a small 69-year-old man with bright eyes, knows how tough it has become for single parents to look after a child in poor villages like Lipunga: his own grandson was sent to an orphanage for a few months after the child's mother died.
(5) The population understudy was composed of 156 children, with ages ranging from 1 to 14 years; they were stratified in three socio-environmental groups (white-family unit, gypsy-family unit and orphanage), and also divided into subgroups according to age.
(6) In the weeks following the revolution here in 1989 I met representatives from the British Red Cross who came to bring aid to the orphanages that had hit the headlines around the world.
(7) His first appearance, a segment on immigration, included a cod-Dickensian tale of his journey from the orphanage ("yes Jon, all British people grow up in orphanages") to the land of the free.
(8) Ireland's notorious industrial schools and orphanages – all run by Catholic orders – were home to boys and girls who had been officially declared criminals by the courts.
(9) The virus was isolated during a disease outbreak in a group of young seals nursed in a seal orphanage in The Netherlands.
(10) At a Bangkok orphanage where enteric infections are hyperendemic, 74% of children 1-4 years old were seropositive.
(11) Dahl’s heroine, Sophie, is a lonely young girl plucked from her bed in an orphanage by the titular behemoth, and carried off to Giant Land, his home, lest she alert the normal world to the presence of giants.
(12) During a 2-yr period, 204 nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPA) from children under 4 yr of age living in an orphanage and exhibiting febrile ALRI were studied by both indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) and isolation in four cell lines.
(13) The orphanage does not have space, but a kind-hearted volunteer worker agrees to take him in anyway.
(14) Theileria infections were induced in cattle by feeding ticks on them from 3 sources: (a) adult rhipicephalid ticks obtained from the vegetation in a paddock containing an eland EAO at the Animal Orphanage, Nairobi National Park, Kenya, (b) Rhipicephalus appendiculatus adults fed as nymphs on the same eland, (c) R. pulchellus adults fed as nymphs on an eland W 68 captured in the Machakos district of Kenya.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Piled-up clothes and mattresses at a private orphanage in Myanmar.
(16) When the charity in charge of the orphanage refused, Mrs Chapman – by now also mourning the death of Valerie – appealed to the royal family for help.
(17) It is quite simple in Cambodia for people, especially foreigners, to come in and set up an organisation, set up an orphanage, and either have it registered or not,” he said.
(18) As for the Kabbalah movement, if it is planning a takeover of the Malawian orphanages, is that really such a bad thing?
(19) Last year, I visited a nine-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, kept in a playpen in a darkened locked room Our work is with the poorest families in the community, keeping families together and preventing them placing children in orphanages.
(20) Opening the public inquiry into 13 orphanages, young offender centres and other places where children were kept in care, Sir Anthony Hart said the government had to be open in its dealings with the tribunal.
Orphanhood
Definition:
(n.) The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It presents a series of regression coefficients for estimating female and male mortality from synthetic cohort data on the subsequent orphanhood of those who had a living mother or father at exact age 20.
(2) Analysis of reports of orphanhood and widowhood suggests moderately high levels of mortality.
(3) Two of the most widely used techniques for the estimation of adult survivorship using indirect techniques are the Widowhood method and the Orphanhood method.
(4) Adult mortality, based on the estimated survival rates from paternal and maternal orphanhood data and those from adjusted 12 values, is slightly lower than those for infant and child mortality.
(5) Such information can be obtained either where questions about parental survival have been asked in two inquiries or by asking retrospectively about dates of orphanhood in a single survey.
(6) The program for the Orphanhood method will be given in a paper to follow.
(7) No siege, no revolution, no procession of elephants, just a boy staring orphanhood in the face and distracted by the trees.
(8) Although the method is somewhat sensitive to errors in the reporting of ages and dates, it is a promising source of up-to-date estimates of adult mortality that are free from bias due to the underreporting of the orphanhood of young children ("the adoption effect").
(9) This paper extends earlier research into methods for estimating adult mortality from information on the recent incidence of orphanhood.