• (RP) IPA: /ˈdaʊədʒə/
• (GA, Canada) IPA: /ˈdaʊədʒɚ/

dowager (plural dowagers)

1. a widow holding property or title derived from her late husband
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     “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

• French: douairière
• German: Witwe von Stand
• Italian: vedova
• Russian: вдо́вствующая
• Spanish: viuda

• French: dame
• German: Matrone
• Italian: vedova nobile
• Russian: да́ма
• Spanish: dama