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Definition of Widow

Widow In various games, any extra hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table. 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. Related Definitions: Again, And, Any, Anything, As, Bare, Become, Beloved, Bereave, Bereaved, By, Condition, Dealt, Death, Deprive, Desolate, Endow, Esteemed, Except, Extra, Games, Hand, Her, Highly, Husband, Has, In, Is, Living, Lost, Loved, Make, Married, Not, Of, One, Or, Part, Participle, Past, Rarely, Reduce, Right, Strip, Survive, Table, The, To, Used, Various, Who, Widow, Widowed, With, Woman

Widow Quotations Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? Jackie Kennedy Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power. Gloria Steinem Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience. Will Adams This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. Dave Obey I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her. Salma Hayek

Widow Translations widow in Afrikaans is weduwee widow in Dutch is weduwe widow in Finnish is leskirouva widow in French is veuve widow in German is Witwe widow in Spanish is viuda

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