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I worry about dying alone, unmarried and childless, because I spent so much time pursuing my career and accumulating degrees. This kind of thinking keeps me up at night, but I pretend it doesn't because I am supposed to be evolved. My success, such as it is, is supposed to be enough if I'm a good feminist. It is not enough. It is not even close.
Roxane Gay

Meaning of "childless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHILDLESS

childless  [ˈtʃaɪldləs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHILDLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Childless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CHILDLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Childlessness

Childlessness is defined as the condition of being without children. Childlessness may have personal, social and/or political significance. There are two distinguishable types of childlessness, voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary childlessness, also described as childfree, is a consequence of having made a decision not to reproduce. To be childless not by choice is defined as involuntary childlessness.

Definition of childless in the English dictionary

The definition of childless in the dictionary is without having had children.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHILDLESS


cloudless
ˈklaʊdləs
friendless
ˈfrɛndləs
guideless
ˈɡaɪdləs
handless
ˈhændləs
irregardless
ɪrɪˈɡɑːdləs
landless
ˈlændləs
leadless
ˈlɛdləs
rindless
ˈraɪndləs
rodless
ˈrɒdləs
sandless
ˈsændləs
scabbardless
ˈskæbədləs
seedless
ˈsiːdləs
shieldless
ˈʃiːldləs
threadless
ˈθredləs
tradeless
ˈtreɪdləs
weldless
ˈwɛldləs
windlass
ˈwɪndləs
windless
ˈwɪndləs
woodless
ˈwʊdləs
woundless
ˈwuːndləs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHILDLESS

childcare worker
childcrowing
childe
childermas
Childers
childhood
childhood sweetheart
childish
childishly
childishness
childlessness
childlike
childlikeness
Childline
childly
childminder
childminding
childness
childproof
children

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHILDLESS

beardless
bloodless
bottomless
boundless
cordless
endless
foodless
godless
groundless
headless
heedless
hoodless
lidless
mindless
needless
regardless
roadless
soundless
swordless
weedless
wordless

Synonyms and antonyms of childless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «childless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHILDLESS

Find out the translation of childless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of childless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «childless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无子女的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin hijos
570 millions of speakers

English

childless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निःसंतान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بتر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бездетным
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sem filhos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নি: সন্তান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans enfant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tanpa anak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kinderlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

子供のいない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아이가 없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora duwe anak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không con
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குழந்தையில்லா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निपुत्रिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çocuksuz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

senza figli
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezdzietna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бездітним
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fără copii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άτεκνος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kinderlose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

barnlös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

barnløs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of childless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHILDLESS»

The term «childless» is quite widely used and occupies the 24.646 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHILDLESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «childless» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «childless» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about childless

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10 QUOTES WITH «CHILDLESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word childless.
1
Francis Bacon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
2
Julianna Baggott
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
3
Rachel Cusk
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
4
Kiki Dee
I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken nights and nappy changes holds no appeal for me.
5
Kate DiCamillo
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
6
Beth Ditto
This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
7
Louis Garrel
The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.
8
Roxane Gay
I worry about dying alone, unmarried and childless, because I spent so much time pursuing my career and accumulating degrees. This kind of thinking keeps me up at night, but I pretend it doesn't because I am supposed to be evolved. My success, such as it is, is supposed to be enough if I'm a good feminist. It is not enough. It is not even close.
9
George J. Mitchell
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.
10
Daniel Keys Moran
If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHILDLESS»

Discover the use of childless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to childless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Childless Revolution
I was also frustrated by the choice/chance distinction previously used to classify childless women; either a woman isjoyousabout her childfree stateor sheis devastated with her childlessness. I found thisview too limiting tocover the entire topic.
Madelyn Cain, 2012
2
Two Is Enough: A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice
And yet, the number of people choosing childlessness is on the rise. These are the childless by choice-people who have actively decided not to have children-rather than the childless by circumstance.
Laura Scott, 2009
3
Childless: The Critically Acclaimed Novel
Childless is the third volume of the author's trilogy begun with Fatherless and Motherless.
Brian J. Gail, 2011
4
Voluntarily Childless Men: An Exploration of Identity and Stigma
This study involved a qualitative exploration of voluntarily childless men.
Robert Earl Reed, 2008
5
Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the ...
Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.
Elaine Tyler May, 1997
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Childless: No Choice: The Experience of Involuntary ...
Sixty-five per cent of the childless were 65 or over, but only 39.1 per cent of the parous women. This would be expected for two reasons. Firstly, reproductive medicine has developed out of all recognition since 1945: when many of these ...
James H. Monach, 2003
7
Hope for the Childless: Restoring the Ruins
Nellie Odhuno-Shani's goal in writing this book is to share insights from the word of God that will encourage married couples wanting children to recognize that when their miracles come, they will develop an even deeper foundation of faith ...
Nellie Odhuno-Shani, 2011
8
Japan: The Childless Society?: The Crisis of Motherhood
The forming of the nuclear family, together with fewer brothers and sisters, means that more often than not the first baby they hold is their own — as the following comments confirm: Having remained childless for the first four years of marriage,  ...
Muriel Jolivet, 2013
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A Comparison of Childless Stepmothers and Stepmothers with ...
Research shows that stepparents experience considerable amounts of stress (e.g.
Amanda Rene DeSio, 2008
10
Orange Coast Magazine
Deborah Hendlin is a psychotherapist based in Irvine who has done research on childless women and has counseled childless couples in her practice. OC: What percentage of women are childless by choice? HENDLIN: By taking 1985 U.S. ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHILDLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term childless is used in the context of the following news items.
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Yvette Cooper attacked by Liz Kendall allies in 'childless' row
Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, has been accused of highlighting the fact her Labour leadership rival Liz Kendall does not have ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Unkind speculation about being childless
An English teacher of special needs children, she tells The New Paper on Sunday that she treats the children in her class as if they were her ... «AsiaOne, Jul 15»
3
Health Affairs' July Issue: Medicaid's Evolving Delivery Systems
... of Medicaid to childless adults and found that uncompensated care was about one-third lower than it would have been without expansion. «Health Affairs, Jul 15»
4
Abby: Questioning boyfriend won't likely change
My sister, who is childless, feels strongly that this is not right. She thinks a 6-year-old should only be with her parents and grandparents. «SunHerald.com, Jul 15»
5
Would all the self-congratulatory dads please shut up?
Single men, childless men, infertile men, intelligent men everywhere should boycott all the promoters at precisely this time as a reward for their ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
6
Tony Winner James Corden to Host 31st Annual TELEVISION …
... the big screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's beloved musicalINTO THE WOODS, where he stole the show as the childless Baker. «Broadway World, Jul 15»
7
Queensland: 28 ways we're different to the rest of Australia
Households here are more likely to comprise childless couples. Slightly younger: The median age here is 35, compared with 36 in Sydney and ... «Courier Mail, Jul 15»
8
Meet The On-Demand Workers Who Say They're Living The Sharing …
... are of the age (22 to 34) and family structure (single and childless) that enables them to take on this kind of precarious employment model. «BuzzFeed News, Jul 15»
9
State Medicaid Programs and the Changing Dynamics of Pharmacy …
"Take, for example, childless adults, which are new to Medicaid under the ACA. These populations have brought with them a number of specific ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
10
The Week In Data: Maiden Names, Beer And Childless Women
This is The Week In Data, our data journalism roundup. Here you'll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems ... «FiveThirtyEight, Jul 15»

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