Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dowager
IPA transcription: [d'aʊədʒɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dowager
    Meaning: a widow holding property received from her deceased husband
Usage examples
  • For frank hideousness, commend me to the noble dowager.
  • "Since the Dowager took her up she's far too grand for the likes of us," she said.
  • They were, at length, very much surprised to see a pompous edition of it in folio, dedicated to the Princess Dowager of Wales, by a Dr. Douglas, as his own.
  • The Duchess of Richmond occasionally gave away a dog to intimate friends, such as the Dowager Lady Wharncliffe, Lady Dorothy Nevill, and others, but in those days the Pekinese was practically an unknown quantity, and it can therefore be more readily understood what interest was aroused about eleven years ago by the appearance of a small dog, similar in size, colour, and general type to those so carefully cherished at Goodwood.