The meaning of WIDOW is a woman who has lost her spouse or partner by death and usually has not remarried. How to use widow in a sentence.

A widow (female) or widower (male) is a person whose spouse has died and has not remarried. The male form, "widower", is first attested in the 14th century, by the 19th century supplanting "widow" …

/ ˈwɪd·oʊ / Add to word list a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again (Definition of widow from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to cause to become a widow or widower [usually in the past participle] widowed by the war

A widow is defined as a woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried. The male equivalent of a widow is called a "widower." The term is often used specifically to refer to a woman …

Definition of widow noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not married again. She gets a widow’s pension. Oxford University Press …

Widow is primarily used as a noun referring to a woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried. It can also be used as a verb, although less commonly, meaning to make someone a …

1. 'widow' You say that a woman is a widow when her husband has died and she has not married again. I had been a widow for five years. When a man has died, you can refer to his wife as his widow. His …

WIDOW meaning: 1 : a woman whose husband has died; 2 : a woman whose husband often leaves her alone while he plays sports or is involved in other activities

The term “widow”—a woman whose spouse has died and who has not remarried—is more than just a word; in the eyes of the U.S. legal system, it is a specific status that unlocks a crucial set of rights, …