widower
n.
man whose wife has died
WIDOW
Widow
A widow is a
woman whose
spouse has died. A man whose spouse has died is a widower. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or (occasionally) viduity. The social status of widows has been an important social issue, particularly in the past. In families in which the husband was the sole provider, widowhood could plunge the family into
poverty, and many
charities had as a goal the aid of widows and
orphans (often, not children without parents, but children without a contributing father). This was aggravated by women's longer life spans, and that men generally marry women younger than themselves, and by the greater ease with which men remarried.
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Widower
(n.)
A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Widow, Widowhood, Widower
WIDOW, WIDOWHOOD, WIDOWER - An unmarried woman whose husband is dead.
In legal writings, widow is an addition given to a woman who is unmarried and whose husband is dead. The addition of spinster is given to a woman who never was married.
WIDOWHOOD - The state of a man whose wife is dead or of a woman whose husband is dead. In general there is no law to regulate the time during whichh a man must remain a widower, or a woman a widow, before they marry a second time. The term widowhood is mostly applied to the state or condition of a widow.
WIDOWER - A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a right to administer to his wife's separate estate, and as her administrator to collect debts due to her, generally for his own use.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
widower
Noun
1. a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried
(synonym) widowman
(hypernym) man, adult male
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