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Definition: Motherless |
MotherlessAdjective1. Having no living or known mother. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "motherless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Crosswords: Motherless |
| English words defined with "motherless": dogie, dogy ♦ leppy ♦ Udderless, Unmothered. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "motherless": Dombey. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You son of a motherless goat! (Three Amigos!; writing credit: Steve Martin; Lorne Michaels) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Motherless migrant child. Washington, Toppenish, Yakima Valley. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Motherless, fatherless, starving--How much to save these little lives?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Motherless, fatherless, starving--How much to save these little lives? War Fund week--One hundred million dollars--May 20th-27th / / Crisp. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Motherless, fatherless, starving--How much to save these little lives?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Motherless, fatherless, starving--How much to save these little lives? War Fund week--One hundred million dollars--May 20th-27th / / Crisp. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Motherless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Motherless" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
motherless daughter | 31 |
motherless child | 13 |
motherless | 9 |
child feel i like motherless sometimes | 8 |
motherless brooklyn | 6 |
kitten motherless | 4 |
child lyrics motherless | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "motherless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që s'ka nënë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сиротен (desolate), без майка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 母. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bez matky. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mutterlos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ορφανόσ μητρόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | anyátlan, anyátlan árva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | orfano di madre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 父子家庭 (motherless family). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふしかてい (motherless family). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 어머니가 없". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | loirranagh, gyn moir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otherlessmay sem mãe, órfão de mãe. (various references) orfan de mamã, fãrã mamã. (various references) лишенный матери. (various references) bez majke. (various references) huérfano de madre. (various references) modelös. (various references) ซึ่งไม่มีแม่. (various references) annesiz (udderless), anasız, öksüz (half-orphan, orphan, parentless). (various references) що не ма" матері. (various references) m" côi mẹ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "motherless": motherlessness, motherlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Motherless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: motherers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "motherless" (pronounced mu"therlus) |
| 5 | -th er l u s | fatherless, featherless. |
| 4 | -er l u s | colorless, driverless, featureless, humorless, leaderless, odorless, paperless, powerless, rudderless, tireless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fearless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-l-m-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hostelers, molesters, thermoses. | |
-2 letters: holsters, homeless, hosteler, hostlers, molester, resmelts, shelters, smelters, smothers, solerets, somerset, termless, theorems, thermels. | |
-3 letters: emoters, ethoses, helmets, heteros, holster, horstes, hostels, hostler, melters, merlots, mesteso, meteors, molests, molters, morsels, moshers, mothers, omelets, ostlers, remelts, remotes, reshoes, resmelt, resoles, shelter, smelter, smother, soleret, stereos, sterols, streels, telomes, teloses, theorem. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-l-m-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: motherliness. | |
+4 letters: motherlessness, motherlinesses, schlockmeister. | |
+5 letters: blameworthiness, cholestyramines, heterothallisms, schlockmeisters. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 74 68 65 72 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- - .... . .-. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o t h e r l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0074 0068 0065 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818674718478718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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