1. the state or condition of being a widower

Examples

• After his wife’s death, he struggled to adjust to widowerhood.
• The support group helped men cope with the challenges of widowerhood.
• His widowerhood lasted fifteen years before he remarried.
• The loneliness of widowerhood was harder than he had expected.
• Many men find widowerhood more difficult than women find widowhood.
• He wrote a book about his experience of widowerhood and grief.