Widow

Quick meaning: Widow is a noun meaning A person whose spouse is absent:.

Meaning

A person whose spouse is absent:.

More Meanings

1. (card games) An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
2. (typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
3. (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
4. (transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To be widow to.
7. Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).

Example Sentences

Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now, My friend, the brother of my love. My Arthur! whom I shall not see ⁠Till all my widow’d race be run; ⁠Dear as the mother to the son, More than my brothers are to me.

Word Forms

• widows
• widowing
• widowed

Synonyms for widow

Depending on context, synonyms include widower, kitty.

Antonyms for widow

Common opposites include orphan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include widower, widowhood, wife, spouse, remarriage, woman.

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