Fatherless
['fɑːðəlɪs] or ['fɑðɚləs]
Definition
(adj.) not having a known or legally responsible father .
(adj.) having no living father .
Typed by Lillian--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
(a.) Without a known author.
Typist: Tyler
Examples
- I bemoaned my desolate widow and fatherless children. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He visited the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and kept himself unspotted from the world. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Hope and keep busy, and whatever happens, remember that you never can be fatherless. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- God protect and keep my fatherless boy! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She knew the story as well as if she had read it in one of her favourite novel-books--Fatherless Fanny, or the Scottish Chiefs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Tyler