Parentless vs Fatherless - What's the difference?
parentless | fatherless |
Having no (living) parent.
* 1973 , Michael Gordon, The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective
* 2004 , Michael Kay, XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference
(computing) Having no parent in a data structure.
* 2012 , Michael Lawrence, ?John Verzani, Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R (page 19)
Without a living father.
*{{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 17
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)
, work=The Onion AV Club
As adjectives the difference between parentless and fatherless
is that parentless is having no (living) parent while fatherless is without a living father.parentless
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(-)- Firstly, then, who were these parentless children who seem to have been present in a sizeable proportion of households...
- Two consequences of parentless elements complicate the rules.
- The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.
fatherless
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(-)citation, page= , passage=“Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless . }}
