queen dowager

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   the widow of a king

   Broaderqueen

   Narrowerqueen mother

Questions about queen dowager

What does queen dowager mean?

queen dowager means "the widow of a king".

Is queen dowager a common word?

queen dowager is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.