widow vs widower
Definitions
noun
- a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
verb
- cause to be without a spouse
Examples
Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
Definitions
noun
- a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried
Examples
The ci-devant banker, then a widower with an only daughter, Esther, had journeyed to England.
Underwood - a superannuated widower - has two daughters.
I am reminded of the movie, Rachel and the Stranger, where the widower laments that his wife fought so hard to make their isolated cabin a home and bring beauty to it by insisting on planting flowers in the front yard, bringing her spinet to the West and playing it every evening, buying a metronome for her playing, educating their son in the home and insisting that he show good manners.
