What does Fatherless mean?
Definitions for Fatherless
fa·ther·less
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Fatherless.
Princeton's WordNet
fatherlessadjective
having no living father
fatherlessadjective
not having a known or legally responsible father
Wiktionary
fatherlessadjective
Without a living father.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
Wikipedia
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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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 Dictionary
Fatherlessadjective
destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child
Fatherlessadjective
without a known author
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Fatherless in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Fatherless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of Fatherless in a Sentence
I am now a single mother not by choice but by force, he is now 2 years old and, since April 11, 2021, fatherless.
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.
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.
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.
And I want to apologize to the African American community, because the fatherless home is a major, major problem.
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