Definition of Daughterless

1. Adjective. Without a daughter. ¹

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Definition of Daughterless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Daughterless

daughter
daughter-in-law
daughter cell
daughter colony
daughter cyst
daughter isotope
daughter language
daughter nuclide
daughter of the manse
daughter star
daughterboard
daughterboards
daughtercard
daughtercards
daughterhood
daughterless (current term)
daughterlike
daughterliness
daughterling
daughterlings
daughterly
daughters
daughters-in-law
daughters of the manse
daughtren
dault
daults
daunc't
daunce
dauncer

Literary usage of Daughterless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Piney Home by George Selwyn Kimball (1904)
"1 CHAPTER XXXVII THE VISIT TO THE daughterless HOME Sole daughter of my house and heart. —BYRON. Words are the daughters of earth, and things the sons of ..."

2. He knew he was right by Anthony Trollope (1869)
"She was not, indeed, an ambassador's daughter, but the niece of a daughterless ambassador, and therefore almost as good as a daughter. ..."

3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1884)
"She knows the day and the hour by the Tron church, at which her father. thinking himself daughterless, will be thrust out, wistful, from his prison gate. ..."

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