Dowager Definition

douə-jər
dowagers
noun
A widow with a title or property derived from her dead husband.
Queen dowager, dowager duchess.
Webster's New World
An elderly woman of wealth and dignity.
Webster's New World

Any lady of dignified bearing.

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Noun

Singular:
dowager
Plural:
dowagers

Origin of Dowager

  • Obsolete French douagière from douage dower from douer to endow from Latin dōtāre from dōs dōt- dowry dō- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French douagere, douagiere, from douage (“dower”), from the verb douer (“to endow”), from Latin dōtāre (“to endow”), from dōs, dōtis ("dowry").

    From Wiktionary

Dowager Sentence Examples

  • She feels, in comparison, like a dreary, elderly dowager.

  • This nearly ruined Geneva, which, too, in 1477 had to pay a large indemnity to the Swiss army that, after the defeat of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, advanced to take vengeance on the dominions of his ally, Yolande, dowager duchess of Savoy and sister of Louis XI., as well as on the bishop of Geneva, her brother-in-law.

  • The next day the empress dowager ordered that all foreigners be killed.

  • The queen dowager and her daughter were carefully watched at Linlithgow, but on the 23rd of July 1543 they escaped, with the help of Cardinal Beton, to the safer walls of Stirling castle.

  • Moreover, just at the end of the year a loss which greatly shocked and grieved the queen was experienced in the sudden death, at Windsor Castle, of the Dowager Lady Churchill, one of her oldest and most intimate friends.

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