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| wid·ow [ wíddō ] |
noun (plural wid·ows) |
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1. woman whose husband has died: a woman whose husband has died, especially when she has not remarried
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2. woman left behind: a woman whose partner regularly goes away from her to take part in a particular activity
See also grass widow
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only used in combination
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  a golf widow
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3. printing short final line of paragraph: a short line at the end of a paragraph, especially when occurring as the top line of a page or column of text. The text is usually altered so that this is removed.
See also orphann (sense 3)
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4. card games extra hand of cards: an extra hand of cards dealt out in some card games
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transitive verb (past and past participle wid·owed, present participle wid·ow·ing, 3rd person present singular wid·ows) |
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make somebody widow or widower: to cause somebody to become a widow or widower
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usually passive
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| [ Old English widuwe< Indo-European, "to separate"] |
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| wid·ow·hood noun |
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