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Definition of widow noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

widow

noun
 
 
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
 
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
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  1. a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not married again
    • She gets a widow’s pension.
    see also black widow, grass widowTopics Life stagesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • grieving
    • elderly
    • middle-aged
    • …
    verb + widow
    • become
    • leave
    • marry
    • …
    phrases
    • a widow’s pension
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    Word OriginOld English widewe, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘be empty’; compare with Sanskrit vidh ‘be destitute’, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, and Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’.
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