Definitions for widowhood

widowhood wid·ow·hood

Spelling: [wid-oh-hoo d]
IPA: /ˈwɪd oʊˌhʊd/

Widowhood is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in widowhood (ddhioooww).

Definitions for widowhood

noun

  1. the state or a period of being a widow or, sometimes, a widower.

Origin of widowhood

before 900; Middle English wid(e)wehood, Old English widuwanhād, equivalent to widuwan, genitive singular of widuwe widow + -hād -hood

Examples for widowhood

When you look at happiness studies, you see that people acclimate to even terrible events: widowhood, divorce, terrible injuries.

How could she have failed to understand that that should be the duty, the pride of her widowhood?

The cruel law of widowhood had begun to do its work in them.

She can never remarry, no matter how young she may be at the beginning of her widowhood.

In the first year of her widowhood she had first met Langham; she was then twenty-one.

And now, in the third year of her widowhood, he offered her his dog!

But if he loved her he would have mentioned her with affection, if only to console her in her widowhood.

How was it that she had not seen that her duty, the pride of her widowhood, was there?

Do we not all know of women who in widowhood take care of their families?

They pitied the bereavement to which widowhood in the most cruel of forms was now added.

Word Value for widowhood
Scrable

20

Words with friends

19

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