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Definition: Dowager |
DowagerNoun1. A widow holding property received from her deceased husband. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dowager" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Dowager \Dow"a*ger\, noun. [Old French expression douagiere, from douage dower. See Dower.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Divorce | Widow, widower; relict; dowager; divorcee; cuckold; grass widow, grass widower; merry widow. |
Woman | Dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs. lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer; Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife. (marriage); matronage, matronhood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dowager."
Crosswords: Dowager |
| English words defined with "dowager": Dowagerism ♦ Lozenge coach ♦ Queen mother. (references) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | One day a dowager, of that impertinent variety who think themselves witty, addressed this sally to him. |
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| "Dowager" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.49% of the time. "Dowager" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.49% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 26.51% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dowager": dowager duchess ♦ queen dowager ♦ the queen dowager. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dowager": dowager-duchess, dowager-like. | |
Ending with "dowager": queen-dowager. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dowager empress | 14 |
dowager hump | 11 |
dowager | 8 |
cixi dowager empress | 7 |
dowager empress of china | 3 |
ci dowager empress xi | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dowager"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zonjë e moshuar, trashëgimtare nga burri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أرملة غنية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тежка дама, важна дама. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | matróna (matron), bohatá vdova. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | leskikuningatar (Queen dowager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | douairière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Witwe (relict, widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χήρα κληρονόμοσ, χήρα (relict, widow), αξιοπρεπήσ κυρία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nagyasszony, idősebb hölgy, főrend özvegye, örökségből élő özvegy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | janda bangsawan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vedova nobile, vedova (widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 後室 (widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うしつ (colloidal, glue and lacquer, gluey, great intimacy, hardness, Imperial household, mineral, stiffness, widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ben treoghe toghyragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | enke (widow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owagerday viúva (discovert, lone, relict, widow, widowed). (various references) vãduvã (feme sole, relict, widow), matroanã (matron), femeie în vârstã autoritarã. (various references) вдова (relict, widow). (various references) udovica (widow). (various references) viuda con título de nobleza. (various references) änkenåd. (various references) หญิงสูงศัก"ิ์, รรยาหม้ายของสามีสูงศัก"ิ์ที่ล่วงลับไปแล้ว. (various references) zengin dul kadın, kocasından ünvan kalan dul kadın, gösterişli yaşlı kadın. (various references) вдова (relict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dowager": dowagers. (additional references) | |
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"Dowager" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dejager, dowadger, dowdger, dowiager, downager, dwergar, owage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dowager" (pronounced dou"ujer) |
| 3 | -u j er | astrologer, integer, manager, Voyager. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wordage. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: dogear, redowa. | |
-2 letters: adore, dewar, dower, gored, grade, oared, oread, raged, rowed, wader, waged, wager, wared, wodge. | |
-3 letters: aero, aged, ager, awed, dago, dare, dear, doer, doge, dore, drag, draw, dreg, drew, egad, ergo, gaed, gear, goad, goer, gore, gowd, grad, grew, grow, odea, ogre, orad, owed, rage, read, redo, road, rode, wade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: dowagers, waterdog, wordages. | |
+2 letters: downgrade, downrange, waterdogs. | |
+3 letters: downgraded, downgrades, greasewood, orangewood. | |
+4 letters: becowarding, greasewoods, groundwater, orangewoods, overdrawing, waterlogged, wrongheaded. | |
+5 letters: groundwaters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 77 61 67 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .--. .- --. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110111 01100001 01100111 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o w a g e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0077 0061 0067 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38818967737184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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