Usually means: Woman whose spouse has died.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word widow:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. widow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. widow: Merriam-Webster
  3. widow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. widow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. widow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. widow: Vocabulary.com
  7. Widow, widow: Wordnik
  8. widow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. widow: Wiktionary
  10. widow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. widow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. widow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. widow: Dictionary.com
  14. widow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. widow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Widow (TV series), The Widow (play), The Widow (song), The Widow, Widow (disambiguation), Widow (typesetting), Widow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Widow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. widow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. widow: Rhymezone
  20. Widow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. widow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Widow: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. widow: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Widow, Widow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. widow: FreeDictionary.org
  26. widow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. widow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. widow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Widow: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Widow: Legal dictionary
  4. Widow: Financial dictionary
  5. widow: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. widow: CCI Computer
  2. widow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. widow: Genealogy Glossary
  3. widow: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Widow: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Widow: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. widow, widow, widow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. widow: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See widowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person whose spouse is absent:
noun:  A person who has lost a spouse and not remarried:
noun:  A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
noun:  (uncommon) Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
noun:  (by extension, informal, often humorous or sarcastic, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.
noun:  (card games) An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
noun:  (typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
noun:  Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).
verb:  (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To be widow to.

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