WIDOWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does widower mean? 

• WIDOWER (noun)
  The noun WIDOWER has 1 sense:

1. a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried

  Familiarity information: WIDOWER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIDOWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

widower; widowman

Hypernyms ("widower" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

 Context examples 

Mr Elliot, too, it must be remembered, had not been a widower seven months.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I am a widower and have an only son, Arthur.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Carruthers was a widower, but he had engaged a lady housekeeper, a very respectable, elderly person, called Mrs. Dixon, to look after his establishment.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Trevor senior was a widower, and my friend his only son.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I am unhappily a widower,” said I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Weston, who had been a widower so long, and who seemed so perfectly comfortable without a wife, so constantly occupied either in his business in town or among his friends here, always acceptable wherever he went, always cheerful—Mr. Weston need not spend a single evening in the year alone if he did not like it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She dreaded the performance of it, dreaded what its effect on Marianne might be; doubted whether after such an explanation she could ever be happy with another; and for a moment wished Willoughby a widower.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When he was married it was all right, but since he has been a widower we have had no end of trouble with him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew that he was a widower with one daughter, and expressed my acknowledgements.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thirteen years had passed away since Lady Elliot's death, and they were still near neighbours and intimate friends, and one remained a widower, the other a widow.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)