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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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.
Widual :: Widual (a.) Of or pertaining to a widow; vidual.
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..
Widowerhood :: Widowerhood (n.) The state of being a widower.
Widowly :: Widowly (a.) Becoming or like a widow.
Widow :: Widow (a.) Widowed.
Viduation :: Viduation (n.) The state of being widowed or bereaved; loss; bereavement.
Matron :: Matron (n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners..
Marchioness :: Marchioness (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
Widowed :: Widowed (imp. & p. p.) of Wido.
Electress :: Electress (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.
Lone :: Lone (a.) Single; unmarried, or in widowhood..
Relict :: Relict (n.) A woman whose husband is dead; 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..
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..
Viduage :: Viduage (n.) The state of widows or of widowhood; also, widows, collectively..
Sutteeism :: Suttee (n.) The act of burning a widow on the funeral pile of her husband.
Palsgravine :: Palsgravine (n.) The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.
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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