widow
/ˈwɪd.oʊ/noun, verb2 syllables
Widow means: a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried.
Synonyms for widow4
noun, as in a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
widow woman
What does widow mean?2
noun
1
a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
verb
1
cause to be without a spouse“The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Widow in a sentence
- I'm not scared of spiders, unless it's a black widow.Lumi
- To tell the truth, the widow suffered from stomach cancer.unknown
- She's a widow and a pensioner, and faces many hardships.unknown
- At the funeral, the widow was overwrought with grief.mccarras
- The beautiful widow stood by the coffin, her eyes veiled with tears.Eldad
- Her husband died, and she is a widow now.Ergulis
- Like many widows, she had the crazy idea to remarry.Lebensfreude
- She's a recent widow and she's still depressed about that.Amastan
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Forms of widow
as a noun
- plural
- widows
as a verb
- third-person singular
- widows
- present participle
- widowing
- past participle
- widowed
- past tense
- widowed