widow vs widower
Definitions
noun
- a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
verb
- cause to be without a spouse
Examples
It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
Definitions
noun
- a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried
Examples
The apocryphal gospels uniformly insisted that Joseph was an old widower who was not Mary's husband, but her ‘guardian.’
Back in September I wrote about Al, a lonely widower sitting on his front porch.
Also stolen were a grandfather clock, which had been in the widower's family since the 19th Century, an antique mirror and a silver canteen of cutlery.
