Meanings
alternative famililess
- not comparableWithout a family.
They are famililess, solitary, nonconforming individuals, with no ties to anything but the Legion.
2003, Tatjana Pavlovic, Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies: Spanish Culture from Francisco Franco to Jesús Franco, page 323 more examples
[…] the houseless, familyless old man staggered off a vagabond in crape; his every woe unreverenced; his grey head a scorn to flaxen curls!
1851, Herman Melville, chapter 112, in Moby-Dick, page 539[…] they all sat in one small room with a radio playing foreign music, three other sailors and himself and the four brown, queerly familyless women (it seemed to him) in their slippery dresses and no underwear,
1972, John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, page 11For weeks Seldon recounted excitedly to me (and, of course, to the entire school) every detail of my nocturnal attempt to run away from home and be taken in by the nuns as a familyless child […]
2004, Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, pages 234-235
Origin
Translations
Hungarian családtalan
- családtalanwithout a family
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