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...

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-hunter :: Widow-hunter (n.) One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune..

Viduity :: Viduity (n.) Widowhood.

Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.

Suttle :: Sutteeism (n.) The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.

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..

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

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

Dowager :: Dowager (n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease..

Marchioness :: Marchioness (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Widowing :: Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wido.

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..

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..

Random Fonts

Most Popular