Empress Dowager Cixi held control in China for forty-seven years.
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Dowager
//ˈdaʊədʒə//
Synonyms for "dowager" (59 found)
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27 translations across 16 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- e ve noun (widow)
Arabic
1 entries- أرملة noun (widow)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 貴婦 /贵妇 noun (lady of dignified bearing)
Dutch
2 entries- dame noun (lady of dignified bearing)
- douairière noun (widow)
Finnish
2 entries- arvokas rouva noun (lady of dignified bearing)
- perijätär noun (widow)
French
2 entries- dame noun (lady of dignified bearing)
- douairière noun (widow)
Galician
2 entries- rexente noun (widow)
- viúva herdeira noun (widow)
German
2 entries- Matrone noun (lady of dignified bearing)
- Witwe von Stand noun (widow)
Irish
1 entries- baintreach dhuair noun (widow)
Italian
2 entries- vedova noun (widow)
- vedova nobile noun (lady of dignified bearing)
Norman
1 entries- douaithiéthe noun (widow)
Polish
1 entries- majętna wdowa noun (widow)
Romanian
1 entries- văduvă noun (widow)
Russian
4 entries- вдо́вствующая noun (widow)
- вдова́ noun (widow)
- да́ма noun (lady of dignified bearing)
- матро́на noun (lady of dignified bearing)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- matróna noun (lady of dignified bearing)
- матро́на noun (lady of dignified bearing)
Spanish
2 entries- dama noun (lady of dignified bearing)
- viuda noun (widow)
Sample sentences
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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.
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“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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