widow
寡妇,孀妇,遗孀,鳏寡孤独
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Definitions
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- : a woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not remarried.
- : Cards. an additional hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table.
- : Printing. a short last line of a paragraph, especially one less than half of the full measure or one consisting of only a single word.the last line of a paragraph when it is carried over to the top of the following page away from the rest of the paragraph.Compare orphan.
- : a woman often left alone because her husband devotes his free time to a hobby or sport.Compare golf widow.
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wid·owed, wid·ow·ing.
- : to make a widow: She was widowed by the war.
- : to deprive of anything cherished or needed: A surprise attack widowed the army of its supplies.
- : Obsolete. to endow with a widow's right.to survive as the widow of.
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Examples
Since becoming a widow, Mahira has been living alone with her children in a small village in Mewat, Haryana.
Ginsburg represented widower Stephen Wiesenfeld in challenging a Social Security Act provision that provided parental benefits only to widows with minor children.
Mel Kahn, a Florida widower, asked for the property tax exemption that state law allowed only to widows.
Thanks to a new, substantially funded initiative led by his widow, Denise Bradley-Tyson, and the American Heart Association, Bernard Tyson’s work and message have been given an afterlife.
Benedict’s husband would die of a heart attack—which also allowed her, as a widow, to move toward a tenured professorship at Columbia, something denied to married women at the time.
That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday.
How many will be there for the young widow of Wenjian Liu, married only two months?
Liu had been married just two months before and his wife now stood in this Brooklyn hospital, a sudden widow because of a madman.
Marjorie Wilkes Huntley was a New Age feminist, a widow, and a librarian.
Around Passover 2011, Dalia, who is now 40, had just lost her husband and was suddenly a single widow with four songs.
Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
Sometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman.
Joan Boughton, a widow, was burned for heresy; said to be the first female martyr of England.
Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
The cow happily recovered, which the widow entirely attributed to the efficacy of her pastor's prayer.