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A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has died and has usually not remarried. The male form, "widower", is first attested in the 14th century, by the 19th century supplanting "widow" with reference to men. [ 1 ]
A dowager is a widow or widower who holds a title or property – a "dower" – derived from her or his deceased spouse. [1] As an adjective, dowager usually appears in association with monarchical and aristocratic titles. In popular usage, the noun dowager may refer to any elderly widow, especially one of wealth and dignity or aristocratic manner.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
Latin/Greek Language English Example Search for titles containing the word or using the prefix: acanthus etc.: G ἄκανθος (ákanthos): thorny, spiny: Acanthus plant; Parorchis acanthus, a flatworm
A widow is a woman whose husband has died; a widower is a man whose wife has died. Widow, The Widow, Widow's, or Widower may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media
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As the husband of my best friend, he was no stranger, but he was usually peripheral. Then I remembered his sweetness, his handsome face and his long, tall body.
In English legal history, there were originally five kinds of dower: [1] [2] Dower ad ostium ecclesiae, was the closest to modern meaning of dower.It was the property secured by law, in bride's name at the church porch (where marriages used to take place).