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dowager

English

Etymology

From Middle French douagere, douagiere, from douage (dower), from the verb douer (to endow), from Latin d?t?re (to endow), from d?s, d?tis ("dowry").

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?da??d??/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /?da??d??/

Noun

dowager (plural dowagers)

  1. a widow holding property or title derived from her late husband
    • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, []!”
  2. any lady of dignified bearing

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • dogwear, wordage

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mrs

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?rs?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mr??s/

Noun

m?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. food containing meat and animal fat
  2. fast-free/non-fast days

Declension

References

  • “mrs” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

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