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Definition: Childless |
ChildlessAdjective1. Without offspring; "in some societies a barren woman is rejected by her tribesmen". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "childless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonym: ChildlessSynonym: barren (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Childless |
| English words defined with "childless": Issueless ♦ -less ♦ Orbate ♦ Unchild. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "childless": MacPherson, Michal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Childless you are, and childless you shall remain (Seven Faces of Dr. Lao; writing credit: Charles G. Finney; Charles Beaumont) | |
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Francis Bacon | Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. |
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Roe v. Wade | 1973 | A childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | China | The new law dropped a restriction that parents who adopt a child must be childless. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | Upon arrival, the family allegedly was informed that a childless family would adopt their children for the sum of $600 (1,000 dirhams). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Childless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.68% of the time. "Childless" is used about 227 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) | 98.68% | 224 | 20,130 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.32% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 227 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "childless": become childless ♦ childless couple ♦ childless node. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
childless | 19 |
childless by choice | 18 |
childless couple | 13 |
childless woman | 7 |
the childless marriage | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "childless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pa fëmijë. (various references) | |
Arabic | أبتر لا أولاد له. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бездетен (issueless). (various references) | |
Chinese | 子女. (various references) | |
Czech | bezdìtný. (various references) | |
Danish | terminalknudepunkt (childless node, leaf, terminal node), terminalknude (childless node, leaf, terminal node), slutknudepunkt (childless node, leaf, terminal node). (various references) | |
Dutch | kinderloos (nulliparous). (various references) | |
Esperanto | seninfana. (various references) | |
Finnish | lapseton. (various references) | |
French | sans enfant. (various references) | |
German | kinderlos. (various references) | |
Greek | άτεκνοσ (sterile). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ערירי (barren, forsaken, lonely), חשוך ב ים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyermektelen (issueless). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gabuk (empty, sterile), bulus (robbed, totally bald). (various references) | |
Italian | senza figli. (various references) | |
Manx | gyn cloan (issueless). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ildlesschay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem filhos. (various references) | |
Russian | бездетный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bez dece. (various references) | |
Spanish | sin hijos. (various references) | |
Swedish | utan barn, barnlös. (various references) | |
Turkish | çocuksuz (issueless, without encumbrance, without encumbrances), çocuğu olmayan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бездітний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không có con. (various references) | |
Welsh | amhlantadwy (barren). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | orbe, orbi, orbis. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 20, Verse 30 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai elaben o deuteroV thn gunaika kai outoV apeqanen ateknoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et sequens accepit illam et ipse mortuus est sine filio |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa nam oðer hig and wæs dead butan bearne; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the brothir suynge took hir, and he is deed with outen sone; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the seconde toke the wyfe and he dyed chyldlesse. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the second took her to wife, and he died childless. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the second took her for a wife, and he died childless. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the second; |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 20, Verse 30 |
| Cebuano | ug ang ikaduha |
| Croatian | Drugi uze njegovu ženu, |
| Danish | Ligeså den anden. |
| Dutch | En de tweede nam die vrouw, en ook deze stierf zonder kinderen. |
| Finnish | Niin toinen otti sen vaimon, |
| French | Le second et le troisième épousèrent la veuve; |
| German | Und der andere nahm das Weib und starb auch kinderlos. |
| Haitian Creole | Dezyèm lan marye ak vèv la. Apre sa, twazyèm lan marye avè l' tou. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian yang kedua kawin dengan jandanya, tetapi ia pun mati tanpa mempunyai anak. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | maka yang kedua, |
| Italian | Allora la prese il secondo |
| Maori | Na ka tango te tuarua i te wahine, a ka mate urikore ano ia. |
| Norwegian | Og den annen |
| Portuguese | então o segundo, e depois o terceiro, casaram com a viúva; |
| Rumanian | Pe nevasta lui, a luat -o al doilea; wi a murit wi el fqrq copii. |
| Russian | ЧЪСМ ФХ ЦЕОХ ЧФПТПК, Й ФПФ ХНЕТ 'ЕЪ"ЕФОЩН; |
| Shuar | Ni yachi wajen akintiak, Nuátak, niisha yajutmatsuk jakamai. |
| Spanish | También el segundo. |
| Swahili | Yule ndugu wa pili akamwoa yule mjane, naye pia, akafa; |
| Swedish | Då tog den andre i ordningen henne |
| Uma | Tu'ai-na mpotobine balu-na, aga mate wo'o-i-wadi, ko'ia napoka'alai mo'anai'. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "childless": childlessness, childlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Childless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chaldees, chidlows. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "childless" (pronounced khī"ldlus) |
| 4 | -d l u s | bloodless, boundless, cloudless, cordless, endless, godless, groundless, headless, irregardless, landless, mindless, needless, regardless, windlass, wordless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, classless, clueless, Colas, colorless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, graceless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, 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, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windowless, wireless, witless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-i-l-l-s-s" | |
-2 letters: chields, childes, chilled, chisels, lidless, shields, shilled. | |
-3 letters: chides, chield, chiels, childe, chiles, chills, chisel, dishes, hilled, hissed, liches, lisles, shells, shield, shiels, shills, sidles, sliced, slices, slides. | |
-4 letters: cedis, ceils, celli, cells, chess, chide, chiel, child, chile, chill, deils, delis, dells, dices, dills, discs, heils, hells, hides, hills, idles, isled, isles, lisle. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-h-i-l-l-s-s" | |
+4 letters: childlessness, childlikeness. | |
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