Synonyms:
motherless
Meaning: having no living or known mother
Usage examples
I was now an exile as well as motherless; yet I was not unhappy.
In the morning, before Johnny was awake, a gentleman called who wanted his mother to come to his house and take charge of his two motherless children.
'I have heerd her tell,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as you was early left fatherless and motherless, with no friend fur to take, in a rough seafaring-way, their place.
Sometimes it was only a caress or a whisper of encouragement, that re-assured the childish heart, and sent her to sleep with a comfortable sense of love and protection, like a sheltering wing over a motherless bird.
I can well imagine that the grave serious composure, which, when I knew her, gave her face the dignity of an old Venetian portrait, was no acquisition of later years, but dated from that early age when she found herself in the position of an elder sister to motherless children.