EGAVE

widow

About 8.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person whose spouse is absent: A person who has lost a spouse and hasn't remarried: A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower. Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried). A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.
    My aunt is a football widow in the fall and a basketball widow in the winter and early spring.
  2. noun A person who has lost a spouse and hasn't remarried: A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower. Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
  3. noun A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
  4. noun Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
  5. noun A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.
    My aunt is a football widow in the fall and a basketball widow in the winter and early spring.
  6. noun An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
  7. noun A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
  8. noun Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).

Similar words

widow woman widower widowhood wife spouse remarriage woman bereavement mourning window

Often followed by

of and who in was with or is to

Word family

widowed widowing widows

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