1. the state or condition of being a widow

Examples

• She struggled to adjust to widowhood after her husband’s sudden death.
• The support group helped women cope with the challenges of widowhood.
• Her widowhood lasted thirty years before she remarried.
• The financial difficulties of widowhood forced her to sell the house.
• She found new purpose in her widowhood by volunteering at the hospital.
• The loneliness of widowhood was harder than she had expected.