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widow
[ wid-oh ]
noun
- a woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not remarried.
- Cards. an additional hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table.
- Printing.
- a short last line of a paragraph, especially one less than half of the full measure or one consisting of only a single word.
- the last line of a paragraph when it is carried over to the top of the following page away from the rest of the paragraph. Compare orphan ( def 4 ).
- a woman often left alone because her husband devotes his free time to a hobby or sport (used in combination). Compare golf widow.
verb (used with object)
- to make (someone) a widow:
She was widowed by the war.
- to deprive of anything cherished or needed:
A surprise attack widowed the army of its supplies.
- Obsolete.
- to endow with a widow's right.
- to survive as the widow of.
widow
/ ˈwɪdəʊ /
noun
- a woman who has survived her husband, esp one who has not remarried
- informal.usually with a modifier a woman whose husband frequently leaves her alone while he indulges in a sport, etc
a golf widow
- printing a short line at the end of a paragraph, esp one that occurs as the top line of a page or column Compare orphan
- (in some card games) an additional hand or set of cards exposed on the table
verb
- to cause to become a widow or a widower
- to deprive of something valued or desirable
Derived Forms
- ˈwidowhood, noun
Other Words From
- wid·ow·ly adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of widow1
Word History and Origins
Origin of widow1
Idioms and Phrases
see grass widow .Example Sentences
That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.
How many will be there for the young widow of Wenjian Liu, married only two months?
Liu had been married just two months before and his wife now stood in this Brooklyn hospital, a sudden widow because of a madman.
Marjorie Wilkes Huntley was a New Age feminist, a widow, and a librarian.
Around Passover 2011, Dalia, who is now 40, had just lost her husband and was suddenly a single widow with four songs.
Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
Sometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman.
Joan Boughton, a widow, was burned for heresy; said to be the first female martyr of England.
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
The cow happily recovered, which the widow entirely attributed to the efficacy of her pastor's prayer.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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