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Definition widow

Etymology

From Old English widewe, wuduwe, widuwe (�widow�), from Proto-Germanic *widuw?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?wid?�wh?, possibly from *weyd?-, *wid?- (�to separate, split, cleave, divide�), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu. Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic ?????? (widuw?), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic ?????? (v?dova), and Sanskrit ????? (vidhav?).

Noun

widow (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).
3. (informal, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a sport, etc.
4. (card games) An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
5. (printing) 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

widow (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, figuratively) To strip of anything valued.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To be widow to.

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