fatherless
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- adjective
- /ˈfɑːðərləs/
:
sin padre
- The number of fatherless families has increased in recent years due to various social changes.
- fatherless child
It was that had I died, I would have left my children fatherless.
- It was that had I died, I would have left my children fatherless.
- There are only monstrous devouring fathers and petrified fatherless sons.
- Broadly, fatherless men feel a big burden and they do not feel safe in this world.
- If you were fatherless, understand that that was a sperm donor.
- They have a very bad percentage of fatherless homes.
- I'm trying to work out or deduct the base rate from that of fatherless homes.
Examples
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Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Academic text (1993) -
That attribute is that most of them came from a fatherless home.
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So you left them fatherless?
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Three young children are fatherless.
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Who would dare take advantage of an innocent, fatherless girl?
Fiction book (2001) -
Two heartbroken, fatherless children are part of that.
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You've left my wife a widow and my children fatherless.
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And I'm raising two fatherless daughters on a waitress's salary.
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Psalm 68:5 says that God is "a father to the fatherless, a defender of widows."
Blog text (28) -
Many organizations provide support for fatherless children to help them succeed.
Synonyms
A child with no father or without a father's care
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fatherless is made from father and the ending -less, where -less means 'without', as in homeless or hopeless. So fatherless means 'without a father', for someone whose father is not alive or not known.