Widow
21widow — [OE] A widow is etymologically a woman who has been ‘separated’, left ‘solitary’. The word goes back ultimately to Indo European *widhewo, an adjective formed from the base *weidh ‘separate’ (source also of English divide and Sanskrit vidhu… …
22widow — noun (C) 1 a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again: Mr Castle s widow, Anne, described the sentence as obscene . 2 football widow/golf etc widow humorous a woman whose husband spends all his free time watching football,… …
23widow */*/ — UK [ˈwɪdəʊ] / US [ˈwɪdoʊ] noun [countable] Word forms widow : singular widow plural widows a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again • See: black widow …
24widow — wid•ow [[t]ˈwɪd oʊ[/t]] n. 1) ant a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not remarried 2) gam (in cards) an additional hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table 3) pri a) a short last line of a paragraph, esp. one less than… …
25widow — A woman of single status because of the death of her husband. A woman who survives the man to whom she was married at the time of his death. Meeker v Draffen, 201 NY 205, 94 NE 626. A woman whose husband has died and who has not married again. Re …
26widow — [OE] A widow is etymologically a woman who has been ‘separated’, left ‘solitary’. The word goes back ultimately to Indo European *widhewo, an adjective formed from the base *weidh ‘separate’ (source also of English divide and Sanskrit vidhu… …
27widow — 1. noun /ˈwɪ.dəʊ/ a) A woman whose husband has died (and has not re married); feminine of widower. I had been feeling like a bowling alley widow, but knew he loved the game, so I suggested we join a mixed league. b) A woman whose husband is often …
28widow — n. a grass; war widow * * * [ wɪdəʊ] war widow a grass …
29widow — when combined with the late, is always redundant, as here: Mrs. Sadat, the widow of the late Egyptian President... (Guardian). Make it either wife of the late Egyptian President or widow of the Egyptian President …
30widow — noun 1》 a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again. ↘humorous a woman whose husband is often away participating in a specified sport or activity: a golf widow. 2》 Printing a last word or short last line of a paragraph …
