Widows and orphans

In typesetting, widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. When split across pages, they occur at either the head or foot of a page or column, unaccompanied by additional lines from the same paragraph. The pairing of the two terms with their definitions has no consistent standard across the industry; some sources use the opposite meanings as others.

For other uses, see Masonic Widows and Orphans Home, Widow-and-orphan stock, Widow (disambiguation), and Orphan (disambiguation).
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