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wid·ow
(wĭd′ō)n.
1. A woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried.
2. Informal A woman whose spouse is often away pursuing a sport or hobby.
3. An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder. Also called kitty1.
4. Printing
a. A single, usually short line of type, as one ending a paragraph, carried over to the top of the next page or column.
b. A short line of type at the bottom of a page, column, or paragraph.
tr.v. wid·owed, wid·ow·ing, wid·ows
To make a widow or widower of.
[Middle English widewe, from Old English widuwe.]
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widow
(ˈwɪdəʊ)n
1. (Law) a woman who has survived her spouse, esp one who has not remarried
2. (usually with a modifier) informal a woman whose spouse is often away from home indulging in a sport, etc: a golf widow.
3. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing a short line at the end of a paragraph, esp one that occurs as the top line of a page or column. Compare orphan3
4. (Card Games) (in some card games) an additional hand or set of cards exposed on the table
vb (tr; usually passive)
5. to cause to become a widow or a widower
6. to deprive of something valued or desirable
[Old English widuwe; related to German Witwe, Latin vidua (feminine of viduus deprived), Sanskrit vidhavā]
ˈwidowhood n
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
wid•ow
(ˈwɪd oʊ)n.
1. a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not remarried.
2. (in cards) an additional hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table.
3.
a. a short last line of a paragraph, esp. one less than half of the full measure or one consisting of only a single word.
b. (esp. in word processing) the last line of a paragraph when it is carried over to the top of the following page. Compare orphan (def. 4).
4. a woman often left alone because her husband devotes his free time to a hobby or sport: a golf widow.
v.t. 5. to make (someone) a widow.
6. to deprive of anything cherished or needed.
7. Obs. to survive as the widow of.
[before 900; Middle English wid(e)we, Old English widuwe, wydewe, c. Old Saxon widowa, Old High German wituwa, Gothic widuwo, Latin vidua, Skt vidhavā]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
widow
– widower1. 'widow'
You say that a woman is a widow when her husband has died and she has not married again.
I had been a widow for five years.
When a man has died, you can refer to his wife as his widow.
His property had been left to his widow.
He visited the widow of an old school friend.
2. 'widower'
You say that a man is a widower when his wife has died and he has not married again.
He's a widower in his late forties.
When a woman has died, you can refer to her husband as her widower.
Ten years later her widower remarried.
The ceremony was attended by the widower of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields.
Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012
widow
Past participle: widowed
Gerund: widowing
| Imperative |
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| widow |
| widow |
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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| Noun | 1. |  widow - a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarrieddowager - a widow holding property received from her deceased husband war widow - a woman whose husband has died in war adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
| Verb | 1. | widow - cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia" leave behind, leave - be survived by after one's death; "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats" |
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Translations
أَرْمَلَةأرْمَلَهتَتَرَمَّل
vdova
enkeblive enke
vidvino
lesk
leskileskinainen
udovicaudova
özvegyözvegyasszonymegözvegyül
ekkja
未亡人
과부
našlėnašlyspadaryti našlepadaryti našliu
atraitnekļūt/padarīt par atraitni
ovdovieťvdova
vdova
änka
แม่หม้าย
duldul kadındul kalmak
bà góa
widow
[ˈwɪdəʊ]A. N
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
widow
n
→ Witwe f; to be left a widow → als Witwe zurückbleiben; golf widow (hum) → Golfwitwe f ? also grass widow
(Typ) → Hurenkind nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
widow
[ˈwɪdəʊ]1. n → vedova
to be left a widow → restare vedova
she is a golf widow (hum) → è una vedova del gioco del golf
widow's peak → attaccatura dei capelli a forma di V (sulla fronte)
to be left a widow → restare vedova
she is a golf widow (hum) → è una vedova del gioco del golf
widow's peak → attaccatura dei capelli a forma di V (sulla fronte)
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
widow
(ˈwidəu) noun a woman whose husband is dead. My brother's widow has married again.
verb to cause to become a widow or widower. She/He was widowed in 1943.
ˈwidower noun a man whose wife is dead.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
widow
→ أَرْمَلَة vdova enke Witwe χήρα viuda leskinainen veuve udovica vedova 未亡人 과부 weduwe enke wdowa viúva вдова änka แม่หม้าย dul bà góa 寡妇Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
widow
n. viuda.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
widow
n viudaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.