widowhood
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- noun
- /ˈwɪdoʊhʊd/
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viudez
- Living arrangement, widowhood, and gender are strong indicators of poverty among elderly people.
- higher rates of widowhood
Examples
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For example, Long Susy's family fought among themselves over her widowhood and the issue of remarriage.
Academic text (1992) -
Widowhood doesn't impact on my ability to do my job.
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Only later in their lives, often in their widowhood, were these women able to pursue their religious goals.
Academic text (1994) -
In nineteenth-century literature about old age, marriage and widowhood were hardly mentioned.
Academic text (1995) -
On the other end of the marital spectrum, black women showed the highest rate of widowhood of all groups.
Academic text (1996) -
Her widowhood was a foreshadowing of great human sorrows and setbacks yet to come.
Academic text (2014) -
To appreciate the difficulties of Florence's widowhood, it is necessary briefly to rehearse the story of her marriage to Hardy.
Academic text (1990) -
In her widowhood, Seyavi also enlarges for Austin the traditional image of motherhood and home.
Fiction book (1996) -
Only later in their lives, often in their widowhood, were these women able to pursue their religious goals.
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Offers were made from time to time, but I refused them all, being content with widowhood.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Widowhood comes from two parts: widow, a word for a woman who has lost her husband, and the ending -hood, which means 'state' as in childhood. So widowhood simply means the 'state of being a widow', the time after your partner has died.