widow
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
widow/ˈwɪdəʊ/
▶noun
- 1 a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again.
■ humorous a woman whose husband is often away participating in a specified sport or activity: a golf widow.
- 2 Printing a last word or short last line of a paragraph falling at the top of a page or column.
– origin OE widewe, from an Indo-Eur. root meaning ‘be empty’.
'widow' also found in these Oxford entries:
archduchess
- baroness
- black widow
- countess
- dowager
- dower
- dower house
- dowry
- duchess
- empress
- grand duchess
- grass widow
- jointress
- levirate
- maharani
- majesty
- marchioness
- marquise
- peeress
- princess
- queen dowager
- queen mother
- relict
- sati
- viscountess
- weeds
- weeper
- whydah
- widowhood
- widow's cruse
- widow's mite
- widow's peak
- widow's walk
- widow's weeds
