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widow-hunters

widow-hunters is the plural of widow-hunter.

Meaning of widow-hunter

Noun

widow-hunter (plural widow-hunters)

  1. Somebody who seeks to marry a widow for her money.

Questions about widow-hunters

What is widow-hunters the plural of?
Widow-hunters is the plural of widow-hunter.

Words near widow-hunters in the dictionary

  1. widow's silk
  2. widow's walk
  3. widow's walks
  4. widow's weeds
  5. widow-hunter
  6. widow-hunters
  7. widow-maker
  8. widow-makers
  9. widow-wail
  10. widowbird
  11. widowbirds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: widow-hunters (page history and authors); widow-hunter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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