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单词 motherless
释义
motherless
adjective
uk
/ˈmʌð.ə.ləs/us
/ˈmʌð.ɚ.ləs/
without amother:
没有母亲的
apoormotherlesschild没有母亲的可怜孩子
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
a child who has no parents
  • orphanShe's an orphan adopted by a wealthy New York family.
  • orphanedShe finds herself caring for an orphaned child.
  • motherlessShe died at 39 and left four small children motherless.
  • fatherlessThe raid created 85 widows and 250 fatherless children.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Parents & children
  • babyhood
  • babymoon
  • bastard
  • brat
  • child abuse
  • fraternal twin
  • guardianship
  • identical twin
  • illegitimacy
  • parent
  • parentage
  • parental
  • parenthood
  • step-parent
  • the generation gap
  • the patter(ing) of tiny feetidiom
  • triplet
  • tug of love
  • twin
  • without issueidiom
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(Definition ofmotherlessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmotherless

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I wish to ask him particularly about one or two points, the first being the supervision of orphans andmotherlesschildren.
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This is the practice, the amount admissible being themotherlessrate for a child.
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Is it nothing to look after thesemotherlesschildren?
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Six weremotherlessboys, all of whom were accepted.
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Where children of these deceased soldiers are, or become,motherless, orphans' pensions are awarded.
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The result was that these children weremotherlessand the unemployed father had no wife.
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There are 90,000motherlessfamilies, with fathers who, by reason of being widowers or divorced or separated, are caring for children on their own.
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There are also a large number of orphans for whom there is no provision at all except themotherlessrate.
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It is very important in regard tomotherlesschildren without anyone to look after them that the person who is interested should make the application.
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Of these 380,000 are children of disabled men, 290,000 are children of widows and 18,000 aremotherlesschildren.
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Special rates of pension are payable under the warrant in respect of allmotherlesschildren, whether in the care of relatives or of strangers.
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They leave behind them 1 millionmotherlesschildren who are themselves up to 10 times more likely to die in early childhood.
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They have billeted upon them under this scheme three or fourmotherlesschildren.
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Firm estimates of the total numbers ofmotherlessand fatherless families are not available for the years since 1971.
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Is she telling the 80,000 fatherless and 70,000motherlessfamilies to be thrifty?
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