brother
noun
a male offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; a male sibling.
brotherless
-
a word derived from
brother.
Example Sentences
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A renowned theater director who has embarked on a kind of permanent vacation in his 60s, he continues: “I am wifeless, childless, brotherless, sisterless, I am my well-known self, made glittering and brittle by fame.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
My extended family consists almost entirely of fatherless, brotherless and husbandless women.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2011
For in good truth, strangers, I am not brotherless, save that I behold him not.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
If Perkins was brotherless and sisterless, was not Lucy likewise an only child?
From The Bedford-Row Conspiracy by William Makepeace Thackeray
But it is past!—where heroes press And cowards bend the knee Arminius is not brotherless; His brethren are the free.
From The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
