单词 | widower |
释义 | Related topics: Familywid·ow·er /ˈwɪdəʊə $ -doʊər/ noun [countable] SSFMARRYa man whose wife has died and who has not married again 鳏夫► see thesaurus at marriedExamples from the Corpuswidower• Fat Vince is a widower too.• Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary.• Gedamke was a widower, and he may very well have been too bound up with his teaching and with his students.• For ten, eleven years he was a widower with every opportunity to marry and beget a son.• Mr Wright, a widower with one son and two grandchildren, made his first parachute jump yesterday.• Five years a widower, and no interest in anybody that we can see.• The king had been many years a widower.• The idea that most singles are inherently unmarriageable and the divorced unstable fails to explain the same pattern of afflictions among widowers.• He befriends Rabbi Hirsch, a sad-eyed widower from Prague, becoming his Shabbos goy.Origin widower (1300-1400) widow “widower” ((11-19 centuries)), from Old English wuduwawid·ow·er nounChineseSyllable and has wife whose died Corpus man a |
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