Definition of widow

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Widow (a.) Widowed.

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Lone :: Lone (a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood..
Electress :: Electress (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.
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..
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..
Widow-wail :: Widow-wail (n.) A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub (Cneorum tricoccon) found in Southern Europe..
Widowed :: Widowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wido.
Relict :: Relict (n.) A woman whose husband is dead; 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..
Widowerhood :: Widowerhood (n.) The state of being a widower.
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..
Marchioness :: Marchioness (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
Widower :: Widower (n.) A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again..
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
Widowly :: Widowly (a.) Becoming or like a widow.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To impart, as news or information; to broach; -- with to, and often with a modified word implying some reserve; as, to break the news gently to the widow; to break a purpose cautiously to a friend..
Viduation :: Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.
Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) Estate settled on a widow.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of..
Widow :: 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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