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widower

/wid-oh-er/US // ˈwɪd oʊ ər //UK // (ˈwɪdəʊə) //

鳏夫,寡妇,鳏寡孤独,鳏居者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a man who has lost his spouse by death and has not remarried.

Examples

  • He was a widower whose only son had already predeceased him.

  • The public fingered Monjack as a possible suspect after the widower opposed an autopsy—claims that he vehemently denied.

  • Were you resistant to having the two get together, or was it the right time for Lewis to finally stop being the lonely widower?

  • In another village, a widower was picked up from a bus and forcibly sterilised; he died of an infection soon after.

  • But for now, the multi-millionaire widower has two children at home in Chapel Hill to raise, Emma Claire, 12, and Jack, 10.

  • Now Dabbler was a widower; he was not of prepossessing appearance, and his h's troubled him, but Dabbler was a warm man.

  • A cousin of hers died and left some dozens of young ones and she had to go and take care of them and console the widower.

  • Oh, Aunt Jane must come back, she hasnt captivated the widower yet; or he might get married himself.

  • In 1822 he lived at Belleville in one of the first houses above Courtille; he had then been a widower for six years.

  • He had married the daughter of a farmer of Brie; became a widower in 1833, when he gave himself over to a life of pleasure.