Definition of "widow"

widow

/ˈwɪd.əʊ/

noun
plural widows
1. A woman whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); feminine of widower.
2. (uncommon) A person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
  Quotations
  Now that he is a widow, he tries to win Olivia back through the songs and the music that brought them together all those years ago, leaving Olivia torn between moving forward with Josh or falling into the arms of the man she truly loves.
  2016 June 23, Traciy Reyes, “‘The Wedding March’: Hallmark Movie — June Bride Unwittingly Hires Wedding Singer Who Is Her Ex, Starring Josie Bissett, Jack Wagner”, in The Inquisitr News
3. (informal, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.
  Quotations
  I had been feeling like a bowling-alley widow, but knew he loved the game, so I suggested we join a mixed league.
  1988 November 27, Emily Parry, “For a Bowling Widow, a Split Isn't Just Two Lonely Pins”, in New York Times
4. (card games) An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
5. (typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph, carried over to the next page or column.
6. A venomous spider, of the genus Latrodectus.
verb
third-person singular simple present widows, present participle widowing, simple past and past participle widowed
1. (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2. (transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued.
  Quotations
  Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now,My friend, the brother of my love.My Arthur! whom I shall not see⁠Till all my widow’d race be run;⁠Dear as the mother to the son,More than my brothers are to me.
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto IX
3. (transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To be widow to.

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