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parentless

adj

Etymology

From parent + -less.

  1. derived from parentem
  2. derived from parent
  3. derived from parent
  4. inherited from parent
  5. suffixed as parentless — “parent + less”

Definitions

  1. Having no (living) parent.

    • Firstly, then, who were these parentless children who seem to have been present in a sizeable proportion of households...
    • 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.

  2. Having no parent in a data structure.

    • The top-level window is parentless and forms the root of the hierarchy.
    • Two consequences of parentless elements complicate the rules.

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Derived

parentlessness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for parentless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA