widow's weeds

1. 1.

   a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning

   Synonymsweeds

   Broadergarment

   plural

Questions about widow's weeds

What does widow's weeds mean?

widow's weeds means "a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning".

What is another word for widow's weeds?

Close synonyms include weeds. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is widow's weeds a common word?

widow's weeds 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.