Strohwitwer
German, noun/ˈʃtʁoːvɪtvɐ/
Strohwitwer is spelled S-T-R-O-H-W-I-T-W-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written German, the 247,831st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Strohwitwer is a German masculine noun meaning “grass widower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “vorübergehend zurückbleibender Partner in einer Lebensgemeinschaft, dessen Partnerin oder Partner für eine…”.
What does Strohwitwer mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculinegrass widower
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. vorübergehend zurückbleibender Partner in einer Lebensgemeinschaft, dessen Partnerin oder Partner für eine gewisse (eher kürzere als längere) Zeit abwesend ist
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Strohwitwer
- Strohwitwers genitive
- Strohwitwe feminine
- Strohwitwern dative definite plural
- Strohwittwer obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Strohwitwer?
- /ˈʃtʁoːvɪtvɐ/
- [ˈʃtʁoːˌvɪtvɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Strohwitwer in German?
Strohwitwer appears about once in every 19 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).