Widowhood

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The condition or period of being a widow.
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  • n. The state or period of being a widow or widower
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
  • n. Estate settled on a widow.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of a man whose wife is dead, or of a woman whose husband is dead, and who has not married again: generally applied to the state or condition of being a widow.
  • n. A widow's right; the estate settled on a widow.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the time of a woman's life when she is a widow
  • n. the state of being a widow who has not remarried
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    time of life    marital status   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    viduity    viduation    viduag   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bereavement    penury    destitution    maidenhood    banishment   
     
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