dowager
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈdaʊədʒər/
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viuda
- After her husband's passing, she became known as the Dowager, managing their estate with grace.
- dowager queen
Examples
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After that, Her Imperial Majesty, the dowager empress, will come forward.
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When the Emperor died, Yehonala was elevated to Empress Dowager.
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I receive regular reports from the Dowager Queen.
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With respect, Your Majesty, I think I understand these things -at least as well as the Queen Dowager.
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I need to speak with the Dowager Empress...
Fiction book (1997) -
I think to a certain degree, the Dowager Countess Violet is right.
Blog text (20) -
The Empress Dowager and the Emperor are not Han Chinese.
Fiction book (2000) -
An imperial edict had declared that no one was superior to the Empress Dowager and the Son of Heaven.
Fiction book (2000) -
Through the glass doors, we see Tatiana, the Dowager Empress, 60, imperious and bedecked with jewels; she is seemingly unapproachable.
Fiction book (1997) -
She's the Dowager Baroness Lubliana Thysen von Rothschild und Muck.
Synonyms
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1.0
A woman whose husband has died and who has not married again
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9.9
A woman who has a right to keep land after her husband's death
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word dowager comes from the old word dower, which means 'property given to a wife'. So a dowager is a widow who keeps that property or title after her husband dies.