widowdom
widowdom noun: synonym of widowhood.
Noun
widowdom (uncountable)
- Synonym of widowhood.
- Taking a hoe this morning, (could find no spade but the ace,) I exhumed a toadess, perhaps a widow, living all by herself, in underground lodgings, as widows have done, and will do, again and again, till there is no such thing as widowdom in the world.1854, Benj[amin] F[ranklin] Taylor, “Digging for a Subject”, in January and June: Being Out-Door Thinkings, and Fire-Side Musings. […], New York, N.Y.: Samuel Hueston, […], →OCLC, pages 50–51
- [“H]e and his pretty mother had had such pleasant times during that twelve month of her widowdom”1950 August 10, Davis Grubb, Gentleman Friend (A&M 2797, West Virginia and Regional History Collection) (typescript of unpublished story), Morgantown, W.V.: Charles C. Wise Library; quoted in Jeffrey...
- Synonyms:
- widowhood
Examples of widowdom in a sentence
- The story [of the film Rollover] begins with [Jane] Fonda’s socialite, ex-actress Lee Winters on the night of her widowdom.1981 December 17, Susan Green, “If There’s a Moral Here, It Got Lost in Ticker Tape”, in The Burlington Free Press, 155th year, number 351...
- A massive heart attack took his [her father’s] life, and in devastating sorrow, her mother sank away into a world far away from the harsh reality of her widowdom.2001, Audry Colleen Browne, chapter 27, in Sins Against the Children, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse.com, Inc., →ISBN, page...
- Mother was keen to see the use of her widowdom.2004 July 15, Barbara Cathey, “Love Is an Accident”, in Death of a Saleswoman, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 389:
Synonyms of widowdom
Origin of widowdom
From widow + -dom.
Questions about widowdom
- What does widowdom mean?
- Widowdom means synonym of widowhood.
- How do you use widowdom in a sentence?
- The story [of the film Rollover] begins with [Jane] Fonda’s socialite, ex-actress Lee Winters on the night of her widowdom.
- What part of speech is widowdom?
- Widowdom is a noun.
Words near widowdom in the dictionary
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