widow
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈwɪdoʊ/
:
viuda
- After her husband's passing, she became a widow and struggled to support her family.
- widows and widowers
- a widow's pension
- an elderly widow
Come to find out she was a widow with five kids.
- Come to find out she was a widow with five kids.
- They said no, she's a widow with two small children.
- And people used to call her the widow, which, you know, take that as you want.
- Then like a week later, the girlfriend turned up at the widow's door to explain herself.
- It's, it's, it's gut wrenching, not only facing the widows and girlfriends of these officers.
- And three times that should have been given to his surviving widow because he actually died during that.
- That's how Lieb got the land, was that he was the lawyer for the widow.
Examples
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Did it not grieve you to have made fourteen new widows in a quarter-hour?
Academic text (2015) -
One case concerns an elderly widow, called IaVivi, who lived in the village section of Rarup.
Academic text (1999) -
Come to find out she was a widow with five kids.
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Two families had children my age, and the third was a widow with an older daughter.
Fiction book (1990) -
Trump went to that wake and was welcomed there, spoke to the widow, spoke to the family.
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Then like a week later, the girlfriend turned up at the widow's door to explain herself.
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Well, actually, she's a widow.
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Meanwhile, the son of the widow Cifra died from the plague.
Academic text (2013) -
In a moment's decision, the young widow, besmirched and lonely, accepts him as her husband.
Fiction book (1990) -
A husband who died before consummation left his wife a widow with her dowry.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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9.1
An elderly woman who keeps a title or property after her husband dies
A woman whose husband has died
Compounds
- US
12
5.6
A venomous spider from the Americas whose female is black with a red hourglass on the underside of its body
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9.9
A large bird that is active at night in the southern United States with a loud repeated call
- Archaic
A woman whose husband is away for a long time, for example after divorce or separation
Surface Forms
Etymology
Widow comes from an old German word widuwe that described a woman who had 'lost her husband'. Think of a widow as someone 'left without a partner', and you can see the same root in widower, which explains the modern meaning.