widower

UK: /ˈwɪdəʊə^r/ US: /ˈwɪdoʊɚ/ ,(wid′ō ər)

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wid•ow•er /ˈwɪdoʊɚ/   n. [countable]

1. Anthropology a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried.

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wid•ow•er  (wid′ō ər), n. 

1. Anthropology a man who has lost his wife by death and has not remarried.

• 1325–75; late Middle English (see widow, -er¹); replacing widow (now dialect, dialectal), Old English wydewa

wid′ow•ered, adj. 
wid′ow•er•hood′, n. 

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widower / ˈwɪdəʊə/ noun

1. a man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried