All orphanage synonyms

noun orphanage

• villa — Francisco [frahn-sees-kaw] /frɑnˈsis kɔ/ (Show IPA), (Doroteo Arango"Pancho Villa") 1877–1923, Mexican general and revolutionist.
• boarding house — A boarding house is a house which people pay to stay in for a short time.
• commorancy — a dwelling in a place; usual or temporary residence in a place.
• crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
• hole in the wall — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
• home plate — the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.
• rooming house — a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
• think tank — a research institute or organization employed to solve complex problems or predict or plan future developments, as in military, political, or social areas.
• home — Lord, Douglas-Home.
• hostel — Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
• poorhouse — (formerly) an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.
• workhouse — a house of correction.
• institution — an organization, establishment, foundation, society, or the like, devoted to the promotion of a particular cause or program, especially one of a public, educational, or charitable character: This college is the best institution of its kind.
• residential care — the provision by a welfare agency of a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as children in care or mentally handicapped adults
• organisation — the act or process of organizing.
• organization — the act or process of organizing.
• academy — Academy is sometimes used in the names of schools and colleges, especially those specializing in particular subjects or skills, or private high schools in the United States.
• association — An association is an official group of people who have the same job, aim, or interest.
• business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
• clinic — A clinic is a building where people go to receive medical advice or treatment.
• company — A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
• establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
• foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
• hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
• institute — to set up; establish; organize: to institute a government.
• school — a large number of fish, porpoises, whales, or the like, feeding or migrating together.
• society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
• system — an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system.
• university — an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of theology, law, medicine, and engineering, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Continental European universities usually have only graduate or professional schools.
• asylum — If a government gives a person from another country asylum, they allow them to stay, usually because they are unable to return home safely for political reasons.
• college — A college is an institution where students study after they have left school.
• conservatory — A conservatory is a room with glass walls and a glass roof, which is attached to a house. People often grow plants in a conservatory.
• fixture — something securely, and usually permanently, attached or appended, as to a house, apartment building, etc.: a light fixture; kitchen fixtures.
• guild — an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection.
• seminar — a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
• seminary — a special school providing education in theology, religious history, etc., primarily to prepare students for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate.
• apartment — An apartment is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building.
• cabin — A cabin is a small room in a ship or boat.
• condo — Condo means the same as condominium.
• condominium — A condominium is an apartment building in which each apartment is owned by the person who lives there.
• cottage — A cottage is a small house, usually in the country.
• dormitory — a building, as at a college, containing a number of private or semiprivate rooms for residents, usually along with common bathroom facilities and recreation areas.
• dwelling — Machinery. a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle. a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.
• farm — processor farm
• house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
• hut — a small or humble dwelling of simple construction, especially one made of natural materials, as of logs or grass.
• mansion — a very large, impressive, or stately residence.
• palace — the official residence of a king, queen, bishop, or other sovereign or exalted personage.
• place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
• residence — the place, especially the house, in which a person lives or resides; dwelling place; home: Their residence is in New York City.