different between parentless vs fatherless

parentless

English

Etymology

parent +? -less

Adjective

parentless (not comparable)

  1. Having no (living) parent.
    • 2004, Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference
      Two consequences of parentless elements complicate the rules.
  2. (computing) Having no parent in a data structure.
    • 2012, Michael Lawrence, John Verzani, Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R (page 19)
      The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.

Coordinate terms

  • fatherless
  • motherless

Derived terms

  • parentlessness

Translations

See also

  • half orphan
  • orphan

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fatherless

English

Etymology

From Middle English faderles, federles, from Old English fæderl?as, from Proto-Germanic *fad?rlausaz, equivalent to father +? -less. Cognate with German vaterlos.

Adjective

fatherless (not comparable)

  1. Without a (living) father.
  2. (figuratively) Without a known author or inventor.

Hypernyms

  • parentless

Coordinate terms

  • motherless

Derived terms

  • fatherlessness

Translations

See also

  • half orphan
  • orphan

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