WIDOW
\wˈɪdə͡ʊ], \wˈɪdəʊ], \w_ˈɪ_d_əʊ]\
Definitions of WIDOW
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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In various games, any extra hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table.
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A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
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Widowed.
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To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
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To endow with a widow's right.
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To become, or survive as, the widow of.
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To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; - rarely used except in the past participle.
By Oddity Software
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In various games, any extra hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table.
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A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
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Widowed.
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To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
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To endow with a widow's right.
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To become, or survive as, the widow of.
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To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; - rarely used except in the past participle.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A woman whose husband has died and who has not remarried.
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To bereave or deprive of a husband by death.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A woman without or bereft of her husband by death.
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To bereave of a husband: to strip of anything valued. "Widow in old English was both masculine and feminine. The word was afterwards limited in application to women, because the position of a widow is so often of a dressing character; and when it became necessary to distinguish a man who had lost his wife by a single word, the masculine suffix was added to the recognized feminine widow."-E. Adams.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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