Definitions for Fatherless
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fatherlessadjective

   having no living father

2. fatherlessadjective

   not having a known or legally responsible father

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fatherlessadjective

   Without a living father.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fatherlessadjective

   Without a father; destitute of a father.

   Etymology: from father.

   Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. Ex. xxii.

   Our fatherless distress was left unmoan’d;
   Your widow dolours likewise be unwept. William Shakespeare, R. III.

   The fatherless had no friend. George Sandys.

   He caught his death the last county-sessions, where he would go to see justice done to a poor widow woman and her fatherless children. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 517.

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1. fatherless

   A single parent is a person who has a child or children but does not have a spouse or live-in partner to assist in the upbringing or support of the child. Reasons for becoming a single parent include divorce, break-up, abandonment, becoming widowed, domestic violence, rape, childbirth by a single person or single-person adoption. A single parent family is a family with children that is headed by a single parent.

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1. fatherless

   Fatherless refers to a person, commonly a child, who does not have a father present in their life, either due to death, abandonment, or any other circumstances that result in the absence of a paternal figure.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fatherlessadjective

   destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child

2. Fatherlessadjective

   without a known author

How to pronounce Fatherless?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Fatherless in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fatherless in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Fatherless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Fatherless in a Sentence

1. Ezra Levant:

   He was just a few weeks shy of his 16th birthday. We prosecute murderers at that age all the time. He was no child, there were real children involved here — the fatherless kids of Christopher Speer, Christopher Speer.

2. Cindy De La Hoz:

   She was a fatherless child, her birth father would not marry her mother … He allowed [ Sophia ] to use his last name, but everyone in town knew she was illegitimate. She was made fun of for that. And growing up, she saw war all around her house. She had very, very little food. When air raids would strike the town, she and her family would run for over and had to go in hiding … There was disease, rodents … Because they had such scarcity of food, she was very, very thin. That’s how she gained her nickname in school, Toothpick.

3. Herschel Walker:

   And I want to apologize to the African American community, because the fatherless home is a major, major problem.

4. Sally Struthers:

   In 1968, my own father passed away, i was still feeling bad and fatherless when I got this show. Carroll and his wife, Nancy, turned out to be as parental with me as he was in the show. Carroll gave me advice, he laughed at my antics, he hugged me all the time – and he introduced me to my husband, [William Rader]! So I gained a father again by doing that show.

5. Chyna Whitaker:

   I am now a single mother not by choice but by force, he is now 2 years old and, since April 11, 2021, fatherless.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Fatherless
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fatherless
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Fatherless
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatherless
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Fatherless