Definition of Widow

Widow

1. In various games, any extra hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table.
2. A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
3. Widowed.
4. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
5. To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
6. To endow with a widow's right.
7. To become, or survive as, the widow of.