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Wid"ow*hood (?), n.
1. The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years.Leslie Stephen.
2. Estate settled on a widow. [Obs.] "I 'll assure her of her widowhood . . . in all my lands."Shak.


The noun has 2 senses

1. widowhood -- the state of being a widow who has not remarried
2. widowhood -- the time of a woman's life when she is a widow

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