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childless

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Word definitions for childless in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Childless \Child"less\, a. Destitute of chidren or offspring.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from child (n.) + -less . Related: Childlessness .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a childless couple (= without children ) ▪ Are childless couples more or less likely to split up? a childless marriage ▪ It was a happy but childless marriage. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN couple ▪ The threshold ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not having any children.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"

Usage examples of childless.

Miss Caroline Coxwell, and their young family was an infinite source of delight to the childless vicarage.

Joe Deets had predicted the problem halfway through the party given by the Meadows family in the main lounge of the Manse a week after Rolf Wintergarten had brought his bride into the community, some three years after his childless wife, Angela, had died of electrocution when a sudden southern thunderstorm had draped live wires across her Mustang.

She had prayed to Lahanna, as all childless women do, and she had made a pilgrimage to Cathallo where Sannas, the sorceress, had given her herbs to eat and made her lie one full night wrapped in the bloody pelt of a newly killed wolf.

Lisa had wondered how many young, childless donors seriously considered the possible risks before signing the ovum donation contract.

The Little Magazinewhere he got his hands on the first-echelon talents, great men, great and childless women.

He no longer solaced the childless Anstice by telephone for hour after hour.

Danilo was Heir to Ardais, adopted by the childless Lord Dyan Ardais, being prepared for that high office as Regis was prepared for his own.

Castle Ardais with Dyan and learn the ordering of the Domain which, if Dyan died still childless, would be his own.

Derik had died, young and childless, and he himself, Regis, was nearest the throne.

Not surprisingly, thousands of heretofore childless couples the world over were imbued with similar sentiments, hence the names Xenor, Xenion, Xendon and Xendrew for boys, and Xena, Xenia, or Xenita for girls, are very common nowadays among out ultra-children.

For a season and more the aging, childless King Baerimgrim had lingered in the shadow of the tomb, kept alive after being savaged by the claws of the green dragon Arlavaunta only by his great strength and the Art of Court Mage Ilgrist.

The couple, Dan and Rebecca Mason, were in their mid-thirties, childless, but wanting a larger home.

Could it really be that she had somehow slept away the generations, as calf grew to mother and Matriarch and fell away into death, over and over—as her mother's calves grew to a mighty horde that covered this world—while she, daughter of their first ancestor, had stayed young and childless?

And now they would wait, generation after generation, for a king to be childless or daughtered, and there they would be, ready to pounce, ready to claim that the high king of Kiev had the right to appoint a new king—invariably a kinsman of his own—or to succeed to the throne himself.

So the Pentagon scoured the long-forgotten series of deferments and scores of young unattached, childless lawyers obtainable meat were sent unrefusable invitations in which was explained the meaning of the word "deferment" as opposed to the word "annulment.