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   Wid·ow

   /ˈwidō/

   

   noun

   • 1. a woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not remarried.
   • ▪ a woman whose spouse is often away participating in a specified sport or activity: humorous "a golf widow"
   • 2. a last word or short last line of a paragraph falling at the top of a page or column and considered undesirable.

   verb

   • 1. become a widow or widower; lose one's spouse through death: "he was recently widowed"

   Word Origin Old Englishwidewe, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘be empty’; compare with Sanskrit vidh ‘be destitute’, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, and Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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