Definition of widow

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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.

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Widow-hunter :: Widow-hunter (n.) One who courts widows, seeking to marry one with a fortune..
Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.
Lone :: Lone (a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood..
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.
Widowhood :: Widowhood (n.) Estate settled on a widow.
Widowing :: Widowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wido.
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.
Electress :: Electress (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.
Widow Bird :: Widow bird () See Whidan bird.
Vidual :: Vidual (a.) Of or pertaining to the state of a widow; widowed.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
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..
Relict :: Relict (n.) A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.
Widwe :: Widwe (n.) A widow.
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 :: Widow (n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband..
Marchioness :: Marchioness (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
Widual :: Widual (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
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