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寡妇的身分,守寡
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Widowhood \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.'' --Shak.
资料来源 : WordNet®
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