widow

n. woman whose husband has died

v. cause to become a widow or a widower because of the death of a spouse; take away something valuable

n. man whose wife has died

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A widow is a woman whose spouse has died. A man whose spouse has died is a widower. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or (occasionally) viduity. The social status of widows has been an important social issue, particularly in the past. In families in which the husband was the sole provider, widowhood could plunge the family into poverty, and many charities had as a goal the aid of widows and orphans (often, not children without parents, but children without a contributing father). This was aggravated by women's longer life spans, and that men generally marry women younger than themselves, and by the greater ease with which men remarried.
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Noun
1. a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
(synonym) widow woman
(hypernym) woman, adult female
(hyponym) dowager
Verb
1. cause to be without a spouse; "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia"
(hypernym) leave, leave behind
(derivation) widow woman

(v. t.)
To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
  

(v. t.)
To endow with a widow's right.
  

(v. t.)
To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
  

(v. t.)
To become, or survive as, the widow of.
  

(n.)
A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
  

(a.)
Widowed.
  

WIDOW, WIDOWHOOD, WIDOWER - An unmarried woman whose husband is dead.

In legal writings, widow is an addition given to a woman who is unmarried and whose husband is dead. The addition of spinster is given to a woman who never was married.

WIDOWHOOD - The state of a man whose wife is dead or of a woman whose husband is dead. In general there is no law to regulate the time during whichh a man must remain a widower, or a woman a widow, before they marry a second time. The term widowhood is mostly applied to the state or condition of a widow.

WIDOWER - A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a right to administer to his wife's separate estate, and as her administrator to collect debts due to her, generally for his own use.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.