Word.ws English Dictionary

widowery

widowery noun: widowerhood.

Noun

widowery (uncountable)

  1. (rare) widowerhood
    • February 13 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to C. W. Stoddard
      My wife is at Bath with my father and mother, and the interval of widowery explains my writing.
    • In her version of Donne's famous Holy Sonnet X composed in his widowery: […]1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Questions about widowery

What does widowery mean?
Widowery means widowerhood.
What part of speech is widowery?
Widowery is a noun.

Words near widowery in the dictionary

  1. widowerhood
  2. widowerhoods
  3. widowers
  4. widowership
  5. widowerships
  6. widowery
  7. widowess
  8. widowfinch
  9. widowfinches
  10. widowhead
  11. widowhood

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: widowery (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “widowery.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/widowery. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.