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daughterless

daughterless adjective: without a daughter.

Adjective

daughterless (not comparable)

  1. Without a daughter.

Origin of daughterless

From Middle English doughterles, dowhterles, douterles, equivalent to daughter + -less. Cognate with Dutch dochterloos (“daughterless”).

Words formed from daughterless

Questions about daughterless

What does daughterless mean?
Daughterless means without a daughter.
What part of speech is daughterless?
Daughterless is an adjective.

Words near daughterless in the dictionary

  1. daughtering
  2. daughtering out
  3. daughterkin
  4. daughterkins
  5. daughterlang
  6. daughterless
  7. daughterlessness
  8. daughterlike
  9. daughterliness
  10. daughterling
  11. daughterlings

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