Term Gallery logo

Meanings of fatherless in inglés

Lack of male parent in raising a child.

Fatherless.

Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "father absence"
Examples for "father absence"
1
Supported by Sonke Gender Justice and the Department of Social Development, Brown wants to create a comprehensive strategy to address father absence.
The South African

Fatherless.

Related terms
Usage of fatherless in inglés
1
There's no justice in this world for the widow and the fatherless.
A Crooked Path: A Novel
2
There is no comfort to offer a lonely wife and fatherless children.
Letters to jackie: condolences from a grieving nation
3
They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
4
They shall not pity the widow, nor do good to the fatherless.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
5
The next morning Mrs. Mulford was a widow, and her children fatherless.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle
6
No one heeded him at that hour-noone heeded the fatherless BASTARD.
Night and Morning, Volume 1
7
Yet as long as you are uncondemned they will not be fatherless.
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
8
I thought that you-andMargaret-wouldbe more generous towards a fatherless girl.
A True Friend: A Novel
9
They were fatherless, and he was better than a father to them.
The Old Homestead
10
We are all fatherless, and may well have a fellow-feeling for her.
The Two Elsies / A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket
11
Remember, but for me and mine you would not now be fatherless.
A Girl in Ten Thousand
12
Thou art the widow's God, and a loving Father to fatherless children.
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Havilan...
13
Was He good to Waboose when He left her fatherless and motherless?
The Big Otter
14
You see, owing to my miserable domestic circumstances, Jimmy is practically fatherless.
In the Wilderness
15
The land is filled with the lamentations of the widow and the fatherless.
The Settler and the Savage
16
She worked hard to keep a home for her fatherless children.
The Godfather
About this term
More collocations
Fatherless through the time
Fatherless across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common