parentless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English parent Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English parentless From parent + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having no (living) parent.
No, if you wanted to free yourself of feelings you didn't want to be an Engineer. Growing up parentless on Ditch Street, though; that would really do the trick.
2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 158:Firstly, then, who were these parentless children who seem to have been present in a sizeable proportion of households...
1973, Michael Gordon, The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective:
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(not-comparable) Having no parent in a data structure.
The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.
2012, Michael Lawrence, John Verzani, Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R, page 19:Two consequences of parentless elements complicate the rules.
2004, Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference:
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Translations (11)
ota اوكسز (having no parent) · sa अनाथ (having no parent) · ota یتیم (having no parent) · sv förälralös (having no parent) · nb foreldrelaus (having no parent) · ka უმშობლო (having no parent) · nb foreldreløs (having no parent) · io senpatra (having no parent) · nn foreldrelaus (having no parent) · pl bez rodziców (having no parent) · de elternlos (having no parent)