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widowers

widowers is the plural of widower.

Meaning of widower

Noun

widower (plural widowers)

  1. A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a man in relation to his late spouse; masculine of widow.
    • Tears of the widower, when he sees
      ⁠A late-lost form that sleep reveals,
      ⁠And moves his doubtful arms, and feels
      Her place is empty, fall like these; […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 20

Phrases with widowers

Questions about widowers

What is widowers the plural of?
Widowers is the plural of widower.

Words near widowers in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: widowers (page history and authors); widower (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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