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widow

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1. widow - Noun

2. widow - Adjective

3. widow - Verb

Meaning

A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.

Widowed.

To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

To endow with a widow's right.

To become, or survive as, the widow of.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The others were only my wives. But you, my dear, will be my widow. Sacha Guitry

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. Gloria Steinem

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased. Anton Chekhov

The son of an old man is an orphan, and his wife is a widow. Lebanese Proverb

The widow is just as fiery as the horse that threw her. Malawi Proverb

A rich widow weeps in one eye and laughs with the other. Portuguese Proverb

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