Definitions for widower

widower wid·ow·er

Spelling: [wid-oh-er]
IPA: /ˈwɪd oʊ ər/

Widower is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in widower (deiorww).

Definitions for widower

noun

  1. a man who has lost his spouse by death and has not remarried.

Origin of widower

1325-75; late Middle English (see widow, -er1); replacing widow (now dial.), Old English wydewa

Examples for widower

She also sports a sparkly new ring given to her by her boyfriend, Art Ortenberg, the widower of Liz Claiborne.

He was a widower whose only son had already predeceased him.

Mr. John Lambert was a millionnaire, a politician, and a widower.

Jacob was tall and snuff-colored, a widower of three years' standing.

"I'm afraid it looks rather bleak for Wetherford," said the widower.

His relations with her father and mother were like those on which a widower son-in-law might have stood.

The public fingered Monjack as a possible suspect after the widower opposed an autopsy—claims that he vehemently denied.

"They didn't bother Mr. Wetherford Swift," said the widower.

In another village, a widower was picked up from a bus and forcibly sterilised; he died of an infection soon after.

"If there were not an ordinance against the hurling of missiles," finished the widower.

Word Value for widower
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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