Widower
(n) A widower is a man whose wife was dead during the tenancy of their married life and he continue to be unmarried after her death. Two conditions make a person to be legally treated as widoer.1) There exists a legally enforceable marriage ...
widower
n. a man whose wife died while he was married to her and who has not remarried.
WIDOWER. A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a right to administer to his wife's separate estate, and as her administrator to collect debts due to her, generally for his own use.
WIFE, domestic relations. A woman who has a husband.
However, beginning with the year 2000 (for workers and spouses born 1938 or later, or widow and widowers born 1940 or later), the retirement age increases gradually from age 65 until it reaches age 67 in the year 2022.
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Prior to 1783, he became a resident of the city of Philadelphia, where he died, a childless widower, in December 1831.
: personal benefit, use, or possession (as of rights or property) <widows and widowers were relegated to lifetime ~ of the marital estates W. M. McGovern, Jr. et al.>
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: the receipt of the fruits or profits of property ...
Historically, this referred to a husband's obligation to support his wife for her lifetime and in heraldic vocabulary, the word dowager when placed in front of a woman's name meant that she was a widower living off a dower.
 See also: Widow, Will, Wrong, Were, Wife
  
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