Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no living mother.
- adjective Having no known mother.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother: as, motherless children.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a living mother.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having no living or known mother
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Examples
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As someone whose mother died when she was 15, and mom was 37, the fear of leaving my children motherless is sometimes incapacitating, and particularly so since I do have a minor heart condition.
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Soulless tombs unborn children dread life after birth in motherless wombs. my 594th poem
The Malady Of Malegaon « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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Soulless tombs unborn children dread life after birth in motherless wombs. my 594th poem
2006 December 17 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2006
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Innocent was in very truth "motherless" -- but so she had always been -- for a mother who deserts her child is worse than a mother dead.
Innocent : her fancy and his fact Marie Corelli 1889
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HI Rosie-On your show you had a guest that wrote a book called motherless daughters.
rblog Ro 2009
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Elsewhere comes the cry of the "motherless" and the "Farewell, farewell, my only child."
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Elsewhere comes the cry of the "motherless" and the "Fare-well, farewell, my only child."
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[Seven, the "motherless" number, which has no factor below ten.]
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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[Seven, the "motherless" number, which has no factor below ten.]
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867
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[Seven, the "motherless" number, which has no factor below ten.]
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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