Definitions for widowers

widowers wid·ow·er

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

Widowers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in widowers (deiorsww).

Definitions for widowers

noun

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

Origin of widowers

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

Examples for widowers

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for widowers
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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