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parentless

parentless adjective: having no (living) parent.

Adjective

parentless (not comparable)

  1. Having no (living) parent.
    • Firstly, then, who were these parentless children who seem to have been present in a sizeable proportion of households...1973, Michael Gordon, The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective
    • No, if you wanted to free yourself of feelings you didn't want to be an Engineer. Growing up parentless on Ditch Street, though; that would really do the trick.2011, Philip Reeve, Scrivener's Moon, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 158
  2. Having no parent in a data structure.
    • The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.2012, Michael Lawrence, John Verzani, Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R, page 19
    • Two consequences of parentless elements complicate the rules.2004, Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference

parentless meaning in Sanskrit

parentless in Sanskrit

having no parent
अनाथ anātha

Origin of parentless

From parent + -less.

Words formed from parentless

Questions about parentless

What does parentless mean?
Parentless means having no (living) parent.
What is parentless in Sanskrit?
Parentless in Sanskrit is अनाथ (anātha). See Parentless meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is parentless?
Parentless is an adjective.

Words near parentless in the dictionary

  1. parentized
  2. parentizes
  3. parentizing
  4. parentland
  5. parentlands
  6. parentless
  7. parentlessness
  8. parentlike
  9. parentlock
  10. parently
  11. parentness

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