Definitions for widow

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widow wid·ow

Spelling: [wid-oh]

IPA: /ˈwɪd oʊ/

Widow is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in widow (dioww).

Definitions for widow

noun

1. a woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not remarried.
2. Cards. an additional hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table.
3. Printing. a short last line of a paragraph, especially one less than half of the full measure or one consisting of only a single word. the last line of a paragraph when it is carried over to the top of the following page away from the rest of the paragraph. Compare orphan (def 4).
4. a woman often left alone because her husband devotes his free time to a hobby or sport (used in combination). Compare golf widow.

verb (used with object)

1. to make (someone) a widow:
2. to deprive of anything cherished or needed:
3. Obsolete. to endow with a widow's right. to survive as the widow of.

Origin of widow

before 900; (noun) Middle English wid(e)we, Old English widuwe, wydewe; cognate with German Witwe, Gothic widuwo, Latin vidua (feminine of viduus bereaved), Sanskrit vidhavā widow; (v.) Middl

Examples for widow

I am in the habit of boarding at a quiet house kept by a widow.

That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.

Marjorie Wilkes Huntley was a New Age feminist, a widow, and a librarian.

She was a widow, and had loved her husband, and her sky was still tinged with grey.

Last year, his widow and his brother pulled 150 of them for posthumous publication, with a plan to release eight to 10 per year.

"I don't believe we shall quarrel on that point," said the widow, smiling.

The results would aid in the criminal investigation surrounding the widow, who stands accused of elder abuse.

The rest of the estate went to the testator's widow for life, and then to charity.

Since 1830 the widow again supplicated the Tribune des Chambres.

The truth is likely closer to what the widow told The Daily Beast in late July.