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
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
Stricken motherless and brotherless at once—for in the loss of little Paul, that first and greatest loss fell heavily upon her—this was the only help she had.
From Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
I immediately settled to start an agency for this object—somewhat on the principle of ‘Lady Guides’—the full title being ‘The agency for supplying Brothers to brotherless girls, or those with unobliging brothers.’
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
