"motherless" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈmʌðələs/ Audio: en-au-motherless.ogg [Australia] Forms: motherless [positive], – [comparative], – [superlative]
Etymology: mother + -less Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|mother|less}} mother + -less Head templates: {{adj}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A motherless person is someone without a living mother.
    Sense id: simple-motherless-en-adj-XaWngNqN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -less
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