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WIDOWER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried
Synonyms:
widower; widowman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("widower" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Context examples:
From their conversation I have gathered that they have been married about seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And a widower.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For this reason, though Mr. Chillip often asked me to go and see him (he was a widower, having, some years before that, lost a little small light-haired wife, whom I can just remember connecting in my own thoughts with a pale tortoise-shell cat), it was but seldom that I enjoyed the happiness of passing an afternoon in his closet of a surgery; reading some book that was new to me, with the smell of the whole Pharmacopoeia coming up my nose, or pounding something in a mortar under his mild directions.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple cooking and keeps the place clean—that’s all I have in the house, for I am a widower and never had any family.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
