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widowerhoods

widowerhoods is the plural of widowerhood.

Meaning of widowerhood

Noun

widowerhood (usually uncountable, plural widowerhoods)

  1. (usually) The state or period of being a widower.
    • The poor General was in despair! To fall in love at fifty-five, and with such vehemence, is indeed a misfortune! And add to that his widowerhood, his children, his ruined property, his debts, and the woman with whom he had fallen in love! Though Mlle.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter III, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/III)

Questions about widowerhoods

What is widowerhoods the plural of?
Widowerhoods is the plural of widowerhood.

Words near widowerhoods in the dictionary

  1. widowdom
  2. widowed
  3. widower
  4. widowered
  5. widowerhood
  6. widowerhoods
  7. widowers
  8. widowership
  9. widowerships
  10. widowery
  11. widowess

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