widowman

9.9

A man whose wife has died and who has not married again

noun
/ˈwɪdoʊmən/

Archaic

: viudo

The story is about a widowman struggling to raise his children alone.

Examples

After his wife's passing, the lonely widowman kept mostly to himself in the old farmhouse.
In the village, people often offered support to the widowman after his great loss.
He is a widowman.
After losing his wife, he became a widowman.
After his wife's passing, the lonely widowman kept mostly to himself in the old farmhouse.
In the village, people often offered support to the widowman after his great loss.
The story is about a widowman struggling to raise his children alone.

Synonyms

widower

vswidowman

33 2.0

A man whose wife has died

has identical meaning but is a variant written form

Antonyms

married man

105 1.0

A man who has a wife

Surface Forms

widowman singular

widowmen plural

Morphology

widowman = widow + man (transparent) = widow + man

The meaning is directly derived from the clear compound 'widow' + 'man' (a man who has lost his wife), so the composition is obvious despite the word being somewhat archaic.

Etymology

Widowman is simply widow + man, meaning a 'man whose wife has died'. It is like the more common word widower, so the parts of the word give a clear picture of a man who has lost his wife and has not remarried.