Definition of widow

• n. - A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
• a. - Widowed.
• 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 deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
• v. t. - To endow with a widow's right.
• v. t. - To become, or survive as, the widow of.