Definition of fatherless in English:
fatherless
adjective ˈfɑːðələsˈfɑðərləs
Having no father because he is dead or absent from the home.
at thirty-eight, she was left with six fatherless children
children growing up in fatherless households
Example sentencesExamples
- At thirty-eight, she was left with six fatherless children.
- In the wake of the tragedy, 17 children were left fatherless.
- Here the student, also fatherless, teaches his mentor about loss.
- The artist was born in this red-light district, the fatherless son of a sex worker.
- Have we made marriage less attractive to men by pretending that men are expendable, that fatherless families are just "alternative family forms?"
- The precipitous rise in fatherless households has finally begun to level off.
- So from one day to the next we found ourselves both fatherless and motherless.
- The orphanage alludes to the consequences of war, in which children are left fatherless/parentless.
- Studies of young criminals have found that more than 70% of all juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes.
- She told how she was overjoyed when a House of Lords hearing changed the law that on paper made her daughter fatherless.
Definition of fatherless in US English:
fatherless
adjectiveˈfäT͟Hərləsˈfɑðərləs
Having no father because he is dead or absent from the home.
at thirty-eight, she was left with six fatherless children
children growing up in fatherless households
Example sentencesExamples
- Studies of young criminals have found that more than 70% of all juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes.
- The orphanage alludes to the consequences of war, in which children are left fatherless/parentless.
- Here the student, also fatherless, teaches his mentor about loss.
- Have we made marriage less attractive to men by pretending that men are expendable, that fatherless families are just "alternative family forms?"
- So from one day to the next we found ourselves both fatherless and motherless.
- At thirty-eight, she was left with six fatherless children.
- In the wake of the tragedy, 17 children were left fatherless.
- She told how she was overjoyed when a House of Lords hearing changed the law that on paper made her daughter fatherless.
- The artist was born in this red-light district, the fatherless son of a sex worker.
- The precipitous rise in fatherless households has finally begun to level off.