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widowhood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun widowhood has 2 senses
- widowhood(n = noun.time) - the time of a woman's life when she is a widow; is a kind of time of life
- widowhood(n = noun.state) - the state of being a widow who has not remarried; is a kind of marital status
Derived form noun widow1
Derived form noun widow1
CIDE DICTIONARY
widowhood, n.
- The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower. [1913 Webster]"Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years." [1913 Webster]
- Estate settled on a widow. Shak. [1913 Webster]
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widowhood
Divorce
N divorce, divorcement, separation, judicial separation, separate maintenance, separatio a mensa et thoro, separatio a vinculo matrimonii, trial separation, breakup, annulment, widowhood, viduity, weeds, widow, widower, relict, dowager, divorcee, cuckold, grass widow, grass widower, merry widow.
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