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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Widowly :: Widowly (a.) Becoming or like a widow.
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.
Widual :: Widual (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
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..
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..
Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.
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..
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.
Widowerhood :: Widowerhood (n.) The state of being a widower.
Electress :: Electress (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of..
Widowing :: Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wido.
Marchioness :: Marchioness (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
Widow-maker :: Widow-maker (n.) One who makes widows by destroying husbands.
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.
Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.
Viduation :: Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.
Viduage :: Viduage (n.) The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively..
Whidah Bird :: Whidah bird () Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch..
Suttle :: Sutteeism (n.) The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.
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