'Widow' definitions:

Definition of 'widow'

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noun
A woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried [syn: widow, widow woman]
verb
Cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia"

Definition of 'Widow'

From: GCIDE
  • Widow \Wid"ow\, a. Widowed. "A widow woman." --1 Kings xvii. 9. "This widow lady." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Widow'

From: GCIDE
  • Widow \Wid"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Widowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Widowing.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle. [1913 Webster]
  • Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave. [1913 Webster]
  • The widowed isle, in mourning, Dries up her tears. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Tress of their shriveled fruits Are widowed, dreary storms o'er all prevail. --J. Philips. [1913 Webster]
  • Mourn, widowed queen; forgotten Sion, mourn. --Heber. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To endow with a widow's right. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To become, or survive as, the widow of. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Widow'

From: GCIDE
  • Widow \Wid"ow\ (w[i^]d"[-o]), n. [OE. widewe, widwe, AS. weoduwe, widuwe, wuduwe; akin to OFries. widwe, OS. widowa, D. weduwe, G. wittwe, witwe, OHG. wituwa, witawa, Goth. widuw[=o], Russ. udova, OIr. fedb, W. gweddw, L. vidua, Skr. vidhav[=a]; and probably to Skr. vidh to be empty, to lack; cf. Gr. "hi`qeos a bachelor. [root]248. Cf. Vidual.] A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband. "A poor widow." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Card Playing) In various games (such as "hearts"), any extra hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table. It may be taken by one of the players under certain circumstances. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • Grass widow. See under Grass.
  • Widow bewitched, a woman separated from her husband; a grass widow. [Colloq.]
  • Widow-in-mourning (Zool.), the macavahu.
  • Widow monkey (Zool.), a small South American monkey (Callithrix lugens); -- so called on account of its color, which is black except the dull whitish arms, neck, and face, and a ring of pure white around the face.
  • Widow's chamber (Eng. Law), in London, the apparel and furniture of the bedchamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she was formerly entitled. [1913 Webster]

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