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MOTHERLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does motherless mean?
• MOTHERLESS (adjective)
The adjective MOTHERLESS has 1 sense:
1. having no living or known mother
Familiarity information: MOTHERLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no living or known mother
Similar:
parentless; unparented (having no parent or parents or not cared for by parent surrogates)
Context examples
She was the motherless child of a sort of cousin of my father's.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I have heerd her tell, said Mr. Peggotty, as you was early left fatherless and motherless, with no friend fur to take, in a rough seafaring-way, their place.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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