- a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not married again
- She gets a widow’s pension.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- grieving
- elderly
- middle-aged
- …
- become
- leave
- marry
- …
- a widow’s pension
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’.Definitions on the go
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