widow /widˈō/

1. A woman whose husband is dead and who has not remarried
2. A woman whose husband spends much time away from her on some (esp sporting) pursuit, as in golf widow (informal)
3. In the early Church, one of a special class of pious women
4. An extra hand in some card games
5. A short last line at the end of a paragraph that stands at the top of a page or column of print (printing)

1. To leave (someone) a widow or widower
2. To strip of anything valued
3. To endow with a widow's right (Shakespeare)
4. To be a widow to (Shakespeare)

widˈower, or (dialect) widˈowman noun

A man whose wife is dead

widˈowerhood noun

widˈowhood noun

1. The state of being a widow (or sometimes a widower)
2. A widow's right (Shakespeare)

widow bird see whydah

widow's bench noun (historical)

A widow's share of her husband's estate besides her jointure

widow's chamber noun

The clothes and bedroom furniture of the widow of a London freeman, to which she was entitled

widow's cruse noun

A source of supply that never fails (from the story in the Bible, 1 Kings 17.10–16)

widow's man noun (nautical)

Any of a number of fictitious persons formerly entered as a part of a ship's company in order that the pay allotted to them might be set aside for widows' pensions

widow's mite noun

A small offering generously given (Bible, Mark 12.42; see also mite²)

widow's peak noun

A point of hair over the forehead, like the cusped front of the widow's cap formerly worn

widow's weeds plural noun

The mourning clothes formerly worn by all widows

widow wail noun

1. A dwarf shrub (genus Cneorum) with pink scented flowers, native to Spain and S France
2. Daphne or mezereon (Daphne mezereum)

a widow bewitched

A woman deserted by or separated from her husband, a grass widow

the Widow

Veuve (Fr, widow) Clicquot, a famous brand of champagne

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