Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of widow is as below...

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank..

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.

Widow-wail :: Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe..

Tudor :: Tudor (a.) Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth..

Widowed :: Widowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wido.

Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of..

Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..

Vidual :: Vidual (a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.

Widowerhood :: Widowerhood (n.) The state of being a widower.

Third :: Third (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life..

Suttee :: Suttee (n.) A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self-immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character..

Widow Bird :: Widow bird () See Whidan bird.

Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir..

Dower :: Dower (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband..

Widow :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..

Relict :: Relict (n.) A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.

Chuck-will''s-widow :: Chuck-Will's-widow (n.) A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note..

Viduage :: Viduage (n.) The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively..

Widow-maker :: Widow-maker (n.) One who makes widows by destroying husbands.

Random Fonts

Most Popular