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wid·ow·er
(wĭd′ō-ər)n.
A man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried.
[Middle English widewer, from widewe, widow; see widow.]
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widower
(ˈwɪdəʊə)n
(Law) a man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
wid•ow•er
(ˈwɪd oʊ ər)n.
a man who has lost his wife by death and has not remarried.
wid′ow•ered, adj.
wid′ow•er•hood`, n.
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widow
– widower1. 'widow'
You say that a woman is a widow when her husband has died and she has not married again.
I had been a widow for five years.
When a man has died, you can refer to his wife as his widow.
His property had been left to his widow.
He visited the widow of an old school friend.
2. 'widower'
You say that a man is a widower when his wife has died and he has not married again.
He's a widower in his late forties.
When a woman has died, you can refer to her husband as her widower.
Ten years later her widower remarried.
The ceremony was attended by the widower of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields.
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| Noun | 1. | widower - a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
widow
(ˈwidəu) noun a woman whose husband is dead. My brother's widow has married again.viuda
verb to cause to become a widow or widower. She/He was widowed in 1943.enviudar
ˈwidower noun a man whose wife is dead. viudo
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widower
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widower
n. viudo.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
widower
n viudoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.