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
He who seeks for a faultless brother will have to remain brotherless.
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
Adah.I fear Nothing except to leave thee, much as I Shrink from the deed which leaves thee brotherless.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
I fear I shall feel very lonely and brotherless, as I have always been one of a large family circle before.
From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger
