Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having no living father.
- adjective Having no known father.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a living father: as, a fatherless child.
- Springing from an orphaned condition.
- Without a known author.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of a living father.
- adjective Without a known author.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a living
father .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not having a known or legally responsible father
- adjective having no living father
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now, that we've had two presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and one Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, who spent at least part of their childhood in fatherless households we should begin to be more careful and critical in our thinking about these families.
Algernon Austin: Joblessness, Discrimination, and Black Poverty Algernon Austin 2010
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There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
CORONATION DAY 2010
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Meeting his double and delving into his life reveals deeper likenesses: raised in fatherless families and poor black neighborhoods, both felt the lure of the money and status to be gained from dealing drugs.
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Both grew up with single mothers in fatherless homes.
'The Other Wes Moore' author knows what might have been 2010
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When he wanted to take children in fatherless homes and place them in orphanges. girlymen love the GOP
Graham: 'I don't think Democrats are for dysfunctional families' 2009
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This sort of crime is typically found amongst populations living on benefits housed by the rest of us, usually in fatherless communities where employment is rare and 90% marginal rates of tax keeps it that way.
Archive 2007-05-06 Newmania 2007
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This sort of crime is typically found amongst populations living on benefits housed by the rest of us, usually in fatherless communities where employment is rare and 90% marginal rates of tax keeps it that way.
The Liberal Answer To Gun Crime Newmania 2007
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Were both Amy and Isabelle particularly vulnerable because they lived in fatherless homes?
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There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Coronation Day 1903
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"Well, a father of the fatherless is God in his holy habitation."
Oldtown Folks 1869
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