meaning of widow2
1. A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
2. Widowed.
3. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
4. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
5. To endow with a widows right.
6. To become, or survive as, the widow of.
7. See Whidan bird.
8. a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
Related Words
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