Dowager

Word DOWAGER
Character 7
Hyphenation dow a ger
Pronunciations /ˈdaʊədʒɚ/

Definitions and meanings of "Dowager"

What do we mean by dowager?

A widow who holds a title or property derived from her deceased husband. noun

An elderly woman of high social station. noun

In law, a widow endowed or possessed of a jointure. noun

A title given to a widow to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name: applied particularly to the widows of princes and persons of rank. noun

A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. noun

A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank. noun

The widow of a king. noun

A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband. noun

Any lady of dignified bearing. noun

A widow holding property received from her deceased husband noun

A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband

Any lady of dignified bearing

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The word "dowager" in example sentences

I guess a dowager is actually always a woman who inherits property from her dead husband. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Now the maid had never heard the word dowager in her life, but thought she would make a shot for it, so when his reverence asked if Mrs. MacCarthy was at home, she blurted out: -- ❋ S.M. Hussey (N/A)

It distinguished the dowager Mrs. Smith from the wife of her eldest son; today the word dowager, imitating the English usage, is frequently employed in fashionable society. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

Now the maid had never heard the word dowager in her life, but thought she would make a shot for it, so when his reverence asked if Mrs. MacCarthy was at home, she blurted out: ” 'No, sir, but the badger is.' ❋ Hussey, S M (1904)

Mrs. Booker T. Washington, but they were women that were more like what you would call the dowager or the ladylike type of thing. ❋ Unknown (1974)

A dowager is a woman who doesn't dance: and her male attendant is -- what is he? ❋ George Meredith (1868)

I fully admit that I just now had to look up the word "dowager" in the dictionary, and he's sort of correct. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It was quite suitable for a "dowager" of Miss Allen's age and type, but rather oppressive and overpowering for a girl of eighteen, though it fitted my slender figure well enough, Miss Allen being of a spinster-like thinness. ❋ Madeleine (1919)

These suspicions were increased when that lady, now known as the dowager empress, designated her four-year-old nephew, the son of her sister and Hsien-feng’s brother, heir to the throne. ❋ Hannah Pakula (2009)

They did so; but when the "dowager" opened the door at their knock, they hardly knew her. ❋ Frances Lee (1879)

LA BLOTTIERE (Mademoiselle Merlin de), under the Restoration, a kind of dowager and canoness at Tours; in company with Mesdames Pauline ❋ Anatole Cerfberr (1865)

The show attracted a frenzy of paparazzi and a traffic jam of limousines, decanting the brand's wealthy clientele and who have elevated this once dormant "dowager" French label to the height of "if-you've-got-it-flaunt-it" chic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"She was then called the dowager mother, and came to live here, in this house, with her own servants. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1949)

According to M. de Fleuriau, this was the dowager duchesse de Richelieu, who as a very young girl in 1780 married Louis-François-Armand du Plessis, second duc de Richelieu (1696 – 1788), marshal of France, and a great-nephew of the eponymous cardinal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"There's a glut of important, dowager furniture out there and not a lot of demand, thus, a pricing free fall," he said. ❋ Sara Ruffin Costello (2011)

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