Widowhood

Synonyms for "widowhood" (6 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
bereavementlife course stage

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)

Related words (3)

Noun(3 words)
spousal loss periodwidowwidowing

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

4 relation types

More general

4 entries
demographic categorylife eventmarital statustime of life

More specific

4 entries
long widowhoodlongstanding widowhoodrecent widowhoodshort-term widowhood

Collocations

6 entries
economic effects of widowhoodeconomic hardship of widowhoodlong widowhoodrecent widowhoodsupport during widowhoodwidowhood status

Inflections

1 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

Source: tatoeba (554873)

And she put off the garments of her widowhood, and took a veil: and changing her dress, sat in the cross way, that leadeth to Thamnas: because Sela was grown up, and she had not been married to him.

Source: tatoeba (7873076)

The woman therefore at one copulation conceived. And she arose and went her way: and putting off the apparel which she had taken, put on the garments of her widowhood.

Source: tatoeba (7873238)

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