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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
/ ˈ·Éɪ»åəʊ /
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
- ˈ·É¾±»å´Ç·É³ó´Ç´Ç»å, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ·É¾±»å·´Ç·É·±ô²â adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of widow1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of widow1
Idioms and Phrases
see grass widow .Example Sentences
My profile summarized “a smart, fit, attractive widow seeking a kind, committed life partner.â€
To come back as fast as possible, the 83-year-old widow has decided on a home radically different from the 1939 Tudor where she and her husband raised their two daughters.
In March 1953, in the company of four men, she participated in the home-invasion robbery of a disabled Burbank widow who was found bludgeoned and strangled.
He died in a plane crash in 1935, a nationally mourned figure, and nine years later his widow, Betty, left almost half of the property to the state as a historic park.
Throughout the trip, he was deeply moved by the sufferings he witnessed in Gaza and focused on providing aid to the widowed and elderly, he added.
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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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