widower
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- noun
- /ˈwɪdoʊər/
- After his wife passed away last year, he became a widower and struggled to adapt to life alone.
- widows and widowers
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- We required better rights for your widow or widower.
- So the premise is that Richard Dreyfuss is an an anthropologist whose wife dies and now he's a sad widower with these two three kids.
- Mary was jostled around and Jefferson took took Dolly Madison's arm as his dinner date since he was a widower.
- And these were organizations that were for divorcees or widows and widowers, people who had kids and wanted to get together with other people who had kids.
- And so she arranged to get married to a married to a widower.
- And like the best thing you could be was the widower because it showed that you can commit.
Examples
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Her husband was a widower, a Holocaust survivor, who had come from Germany after the war.
Fiction book (1993) -
"So your father had been a widower for some time," he said.
Fiction book (1990) -
My brother tells me you are a widower.
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Mr. Simon is a widower.
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I am a widower... and that is the worst of all worlds.
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I understand you're a widower, Mr. Landor.
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One day after Susanna's burial, Huygens, now a widower with five children, moved into his new house.
Academic text (1991) -
Spouses often owned land jointly, the title of which passed to the surviving widow or widower.
Academic text (2018) -
"She's met a distant relative of Chaya's husband, a childless widower, and they go out together."
Fiction book (1996) -
Obviously he's not your standard old widower with his CD collection, his Cadillac, and three grandsons at Yale.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
A man whose wife has died and who has not married again
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Etymology
Widower comes from widow, which means 'a person whose husband or wife has died', plus the ending -er, used to name people like baker, so it means a man who has lost his wife. That's why a widower is a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried.