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.
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Widow Quotations
Widow. The word consumes itself.
Sylvia Plath
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
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
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
I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.
Courtney Love
I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard.
Reba McEntire
I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.
Courtney Love
Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.
Courtney Love
Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother.
Charles Perrault
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.
David Antin
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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