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单词 widow
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
wid•ow /ˈwɪdoʊ/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Anthropologya woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried.
  2. a woman who is often left alone because her husband devotes his free time to a hobby or sport:a golf widow.
wid•ow•hood, n. [uncountable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
wid•ow  (widō),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Anthropologya woman who has lost her husband by death and has not remarried.
  2. Games[Cards.]an additional hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table.
  3. Printing
    • Printinga short last line of a paragraph, esp. one less than half of the full measure or one consisting of only a single word.
    • Printingthe last line of a paragraph when it is carried over to the top of the following page away from the rest of the paragraph. Cf. orphan (def. 4).
  4. a woman often left alone because her husband devotes his free time to a hobby or sport (used in combination). Cf. golf widow. 

v.t. 
  1. to make (someone) a widow:She was widowed by the war.
  2. to deprive of anything cherished or needed:A surprise attack widowed the army of its supplies.
  3. [Obs.]
    • to endow with a widow's right.
    • to survive as the widow of.
  • bef. 900; (noun, nominal) Middle English wid(e)we, Old English widuwe, wydewe; cognate with German Witwe, Gothic widuwo, Latin vidua (feminine of viduus bereaved), Sanskrit vidhavā widow; (verb, verbal) Middle English, derivative of the noun, nominal
widow•ly, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
widow /ˈwɪdəʊ/ n
  1. a woman who has survived her husband, esp one who has not remarried
  2. (usually with a modifier) informal a woman whose husband frequently leaves her alone while he indulges in a sport, etc: a golf widow
  3. a short line at the end of a paragraph, esp one that occurs as the top line of a page or column
  4. (in some card games) an additional hand or set of cards exposed on the table
vb (tr; usually passive)
  1. to cause to become a widow or a widower
  2. to deprive of something valued or desirable
Etymology: Old English widuwe; related to German Witwe, Latin vidua (feminine of viduus deprived), Sanskrit vidhavā

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