widowhood

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English wydowhood, widewehad, equivalent to widow +‎ -hood. Compare widowerhood.

Noun

widowhood (countable and uncountable, plural widowhoods)

1. The state or period of being a widow or widower.

Related terms

• widow
• widowed
• widower
• widowerhood

Translations

The period of being a widow

• Danish: enkestand c
• Esperanto: vidvado
• Finnish: leskeys (fi)
• French: veuvage (fr) m
• Galician: viuvez f
• German: Witwenschaft f, Witwentum n, Witwenstand (de) m, Verwitwung f
• Greek: χηρεία (el) f (chireía)

  Ancient: χηρεία f (khēreía)

• Irish: baintreachas m
• Italian: vedovanza (it) f
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• Latin: viduitās f
• Maori: pouarutanga
• Occitan: veusatge
• Polish: wdowieństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: viuvez f
• Romanian: văduvie (ro) f
• Russian: вдовство́ (ru) n (vdovstvó)
• Spanish: viudez (es) f, viudedad f
• Swedish: änkestånd (sv) n
• Turkish: dulluk (tr)