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fatherless

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Definition of fatherless

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Without a (living) father.
    ““Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Without a (living) father.
    ““Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.”
  2. (figuratively, not-comparable)Without a known author or inventor.

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Etymology

From Middle English faderles, federles, from Old English fæderlēas, from Proto-Germanic *fadērlausaz, equivalent to father + -less. Cognate with German vaterlos.

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