Empress Dowager Cixi held control in China for forty-seven years.
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Dowager
/ˈdaʊədʒə/
Synonyms for "dowager" (63 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (31)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entrieswidowwidow woman
More specific
4 entriesdowager countessdowager duchessdowager marchionessdowager queen
Collocations
6 entriesaristocratic widowdowager countessdowager duchessdowager queenelderly widownoble widow
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 14 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- e ve noun (widow)
Arabic
1 entries- أرملة noun (widow)
Dutch
1 entries- douairière noun (widow)
Finnish
1 entries- perijätär noun (widow)
French
1 entries- douairière noun (widow)
Galician
2 entries- rexente noun (widow)
- viúva herdeira noun (widow)
German
1 entries- Witwe von Stand noun (widow)
Irish
1 entries- baintreach dhuair noun (widow)
Italian
1 entries- vedova noun (widow)
Norman
1 entries- douaithiéthe noun (widow)
Polish
1 entries- majętna wdowa noun (widow)
Romanian
1 entries- văduvă noun (widow)
Russian
2 entries- вдо́вствующая noun (widow)
- вдова́ noun (widow)
Spanish
1 entries- viuda noun (widow)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
She was politely described as a redoubtable dowager.
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A reclusive dowager owned the pastures across the river, and her farmhands ran beef cattle on them.
Source: wiktionary
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,[…]!”
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