widowhead

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noun

Widowhood.

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Meanings

nounwidowhead (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableWidowhood.

    Then this bold Tyrant, of her widowhed / Taking advantage, and her yet fresh woes, / Himselfe and service to her offered […]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From widow + -head.

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APA

widowhead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/widowhead

MLA

“widowhead.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/widowhead. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “widowhead,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/widowhead.

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