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Webster 1913 Edition

Widower

Wid′ow-er

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Noun.

A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again.

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Webster 1828 Edition

Widower

WIDOWER

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Noun.

A man who has lost his wife by death.

Definition 2025

widower

widower

English

Noun

widower ‎(plural widowers)

A man whose wife has died (and who has not remarried); masculine of widow.

Translations

a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried

Arabic: أَرْمَل m ‎(ʾarmal)
Egyptian Arabic: أرمل m ‎(ʔarmal)
Armenian: այրի (hy) ‎(ayri)
Aromanian: veduu m, veduv m
Bashkir: тол ‎(tol), тол ир ‎(tol ir)
Basque: alargun (eu)
Belarusian: удавец m ‎(udavéc), ўдавец m ‎(ŭdavéc)
Breton: intañv (br) m
Bulgarian: вдовец m ‎(vdovec)
Catalan: vidu m
Chamicuro: maluti
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鰥夫 (zh), 鳏夫 (zh) ‎(guānfū)
Czech: vdovec (cs) m
Danish: enkemand (da) c
Dutch: weduwnaar (nl) m
Erzya: доваля ‎(dovalja)
Esperanto: vidvo
Finnish: leski (fi), leskimies (fi)
Franco-Provençal: vevo m
French: veuf (fr) m
Friulian: vedul m
German: Witwer (de) m
Greek: χήρος (el) m ‎(chíros)
Hebrew: אַלְמָן m ‎(almán)
Hungarian: özvegyember (hu)
Icelandic: ekkill (is) m
Indonesian: duda (id)
Irish: baintreach fir f
Italian: vedovo (it)
Japanese: 男やもめ ‎(おとこやもめ, otoko-yamome)
Korean: 홀아비 (ko) ‎(horabi)
Latin: viduus

Lithuanian: našlys m
Livonian: lešk, atrāita
Macedonian: вдовец m ‎(vdóvec)
Malay: duda
Maori: pouaru, takahore
Norwegian:

Bokmål: enkemann (no) m

Nynorsk: enkjemann m, enkemann m
Occitan: veuse (oc)
Oriya: ବିପତ୍ନୀକ (or) ‎(bipatnīka), ମୃତଦାର ‎(mrutadāra)
Persian: مرد بیوه ‎(mard-e bive)
Polish: wdowiec (pl)
Portuguese: viúvo (pt) m
Quechua: ikma
Romanian: văduv (ro) m
Russian: вдове́ц (ru) m ‎(vdovéc)
Scots: weedae-man
Scottish Gaelic: banntrach m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: удовац m

Roman: udovac (sh) m
Sicilian: vìduvu (scn) m, vìduu (scn) m
Slovak: vdovec m
Slovene: vdovec (sl) m
Spanish: viudo (es) m
Swedish: änkeman (sv), änkling (sv) c
Thai:
Turkish: dul (tr)
Ukrainian: вдівець (uk) m ‎(vdivécʹ)
Venetian: védoo m
Vietnamese: người góa vợ
Yup'ik: aipaineq

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