Definitions for dowager

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dowager dow·a·ger

Spelling: [dou-uh-jer]

IPA: /ˈdaʊ ə dʒər/

Dowager is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in dowager (adegorw).

Definitions for dowager

noun

1. a woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband, especially the widow of a king, duke, etc. (often used as an additional title to differentiate her from the wife of the present king, duke, etc.):
2. an elderly woman of stately dignity, especially one of elevated social position:

adjective

1. noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of a dowager:

Origin of dowager

1520-30; Middle French douag(i)ere, equivalent to douage dower (see endow, -age) + -iere, feminine of -ier -ier²

Examples for dowager

Vacations are as mysterious to me as weekends are to the dowager Countess of Grantham.

The dowager with a ready anxiety repeated to them his commands.

When I tell her that Clooney is rumored to also kiss the dowager Countess during the episode, she chuckles.

The two countesses had no outlines at all, and the dowager's was a demd outline.

Milo and Eddie, backed by the dowager and the Duchess, done the real fishing.

She went from dominatrix to dowager, swapping her D & Gs for sensible brogues, her sexy leather and lace for tweeds and twin sets.

The dowager and "my daughter" left that dinner table trembling all over.

He called up his mother, the dowager countess, and asked her to come over and look after the children.

I promise you I will,' said the dowager—'here, take the rod!'

"I dote on 'em," comes back the dowager, and "my daughter" owned up that she "adored" 'em.