in one's widowhood
用作时间状语，相当于 during one's widowhood。
In her widowhood, she devoted herself to charity.
寡居期间，她投身于慈善事业。
守寡；寡居；孀居
成为寡妇或鳏夫的状态或时期。；寡妇身分
the state or time of being a widow
成为寡妇或鳏夫的状态或时期。
The state or period of being a widow or widower.
She faced a long widowhood after her husband passed away.
丈夫去世后，她经历了漫长的寡居生活。
用法提示：widowhood 作名词，指丈夫去世后寡居的时期。
Widowhood can be a time of both grief and personal growth.
守寡可能既是悲伤之时，也是个人成长之时。
用法提示：widowhood 在此句作主语，表示守寡这一状态。
His grandmother's widowhood began when she was only forty.
他祖母年仅四十岁就开始了守寡生活。
用法提示：widowhood 与所有格连用，指守寡的时期。
用作时间状语，相当于 during one's widowhood。
In her widowhood, she devoted herself to charity.
寡居期间，她投身于慈善事业。
强调以某种方式度过寡居期，后接动名词。
She spent her widowhood writing letters to friends.
她以给朋友写信度过了寡居时光。
较正式，常作主语或宾语，强调守寡作为一种状态。
Doctors studied the state of widowhood and its effects on health.
医生们研究了守寡状态及其对健康的影响。
grammar · medium
易错句子She is a widowhood.
正确表达She is a widow.
widowhood 表示“守寡/寡居”的状态或时期，是抽象名词，不能指人；表示“寡妇”要用 widow。
grammar · medium
易错句子She is a widowhood woman.
正确表达She is a widowed woman.
widowhood 是名词，不能用作定语来修饰另一名词；作定语表示“守寡的”应用形容词 widowed。
grammar · medium
易错句子She widowhooded for many years.
正确表达She was a widow for many years.
widowhood 是名词，不能用作动词；表示“守寡”的状态应用 be a widow 或 be widowed。
widowhood 指寡居的状态或时期，是抽象名词；widow 具体指丧偶的女子本人。不能说 She is a widowhood，应说 She is a widow。
widowhood 只表示女性丧偶后的状态或时期；widower 指丧偶的男性本人，不是状态。表达男性丧偶状态时不能用 widowhood，也不能用 widower 代替。
widowhood 是名词，指丧偶后的状态或生活阶段；widowed 是形容词或动词过去分词，用于描述人丧偶的状况。用法不同：widowhood 作主语或宾语，widowed 作表语或定语。
丧偶效应
The widowhood effect is stronger in the first months after a spouse's death.
丧偶效应在配偶去世后的最初几个月更为明显。
守寡期间；寡居期间
She returned to work in widowhood to support her children.
她在守寡期间重新工作以抚养孩子。
适应守寡生活
It took her years to adjust to widowhood after her husband died.
丈夫去世后，她花了好几年才适应守寡生活。
面临守寡生活
Many older women face widowhood and have to manage finances alone.
许多老年女性面临守寡生活，必须独自管理财务。
开始守寡；进入寡居状态
She entered widowhood at the age of forty.
她在四十岁时开始守寡。
守寡的孤独
The loneliness of widowhood was harder for her than the financial difficulties.
守寡的孤独对她来说比经济困难更难熬。
widow（寡妇） + -hood（表示状态/身份/时期的后缀）；同根词：widower（鳏夫）；同后缀词：childhood（童年）、adulthood（成年）、parenthood（父母身份）
指失去配偶这种重大丧失，与寡妇身份直接相关
守寡期间常伴随的哀悼过程
寡妇常经历的主要情感
结束寡妇身份的可能阶段
常用来指已去世的丈夫，如late husband
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.