without a father, either because he has died or because he does not live with his children 没有父亲的 fatherless children/families 没有父亲的孩子/家庭 His long periods abroad left the family virtually fatherless. 他长期在国外生活,使得这个家庭几乎失去了父亲。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryFatherless is used with these nouns:- child