: a child with only one parent living.

Can someone be a half-orphan?

Half-orphan meaning

A person, especially a child, with only one living parent.

What does it mean if your an orphan?

1 : a child deprived by death of one or usually both parents He became an orphan when his parents died in a car accident. 2 : a young animal that has lost its mother feeding calves that are orphans.