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WIDOWHOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being a widow who has not remarried
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("widowhood" is a kind of...):
marital status (the condition of being married or unmarried)
Derivation:
widow (a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The time of a woman's life when she is a widow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("widowhood" is a kind of...):
time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)
Derivation:
widow (a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried)
