What is the marital status of a widower?

Widowed. If your spouse has died, and you have not remarried, then you are considered unmarried. It may seem odd and you may still consider yourself as married. However, in the eyes of the law, your marriage ended when your spouse died.

Is a widower single or married?

After the two-year period has ended, you may no longer file as Qualifying Widow or Widower. If you remarry at this point, you can then file as Married Filing Jointly or as Married Filing Separately. If you do not remarry in the third year after your spouses death, you are considered single.

What is the feminine of widower?

When a man loses his wife, he becomes a widower. The equivalent name for a woman whose husband dies is a widow. Both a widow and a widower are described as being widowed. The feminine form of this word came first, from the Old English widewe.