[
UK
/wˈɪdəʊ/
]
[ US /ˈwɪdoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪdoʊ/ ]
NOUN
- a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
VERB
-
cause to be without a spouse
The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia
How To Use widow In A Sentence
- It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
- For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
- Her name means happiness, but she is a widow with five children who makes ends meet by washing clothes for the neighbourhood and preparing injera, the unleavened bread prepared today as it was 1000 years ago.
- One widow, she said, was carrying around $900,000 in uncashed cheques; another confessed to spending $15,000 on designer clothes.
- The ci-devant banker, then a widower with an only daughter, Esther, had journeyed to England.
- This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter. Clarissa Harlowe
- Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
- But in essence, the short-time Fourier transformation is a method of ingle resolution because it uses an unchanged short-time widow function.
- You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street.
- Then there was the case of George Godman, whose widowed mother went to the authorities when his master, a tailor by the name of Money, beat him with a horsewhip and knocked him down.