Definition of widow

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

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Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.
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..
Matron :: Matron (n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners..
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..
Viduation :: Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.
Vidual :: Vidual (a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.
Marchioness :: Marchioness (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.
Duchess :: Duchess (n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right..
Discovert :: Discovert (a.) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
Widow :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..
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-wail :: Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe..
Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) Estate settled on a widow.
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..
Widual :: Widual (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of..
Widowed :: Widowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wido.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
Weed :: Weed (n.) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds..
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