widowhood

1. 1.

   the time of a woman's life when she is a widow

   Broadertime of life
2. 2.

   the state of being a widow who has not remarried

   Broadermarital status

Other forms of widowhood

plural

widowhoods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about widowhood

What does widowhood mean?

widowhood means "the time of a woman's life when she is a widow". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in widowhood?

widowhood has 3 syllables: wi-do-whood. The stress falls on "wi".

Is widowhood a common word?

widowhood 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.