widowhood

• HYPHEN: wid=ow=hood

CIDE DICTIONARY

widowhood, n. 

•  The state of being a widow; the time during which a woman is widow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower.  [1913 Webster]

  "Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years."  [1913 Webster]
•  Estate settled on a widow.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

widowhood, n. the state or period of being a widow.

ROGET THESAURUS

widowhood

Divorce

N divorce, divorcement, separation, judicial separation, separate maintenance, separatio a mensa et thoro, separatio a vinculo matrimonii, trial separation, breakup, annulment, widowhood, viduity, weeds, widow, widower, relict, dowager, divorcee, cuckold, grass widow, grass widower, merry widow.