wid·ow·hood /ˈwɪdoˌhʊd, də-/
寡婦的身分,守寡
Wid·ow·hood n.
1. The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.
Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years. --Leslie Stephen.
2. Estate settled on a widow. [Obs.] “I 'll assure her of her widowhood . . . in all my lands.”
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widowhood
n 1: the time of a woman's life when she is a widow
2: the state of being a widow who has not remarried