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单词 widow
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widow

noun
 
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
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  1. a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not married again
    • She gets a widow’s pension.
    see also black widow, grass widow
    Wordfinder
    • care home
    • dementia
    • frail
    • geriatric
    • mobility
    • the old
    • pensioner
    • retire
    • sprightly
    • widow
    Topics Life stagesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • grieving
    • elderly
    • middle-aged
    • …
    verb + widow
    • become
    • leave
    • marry
    • …
    phrases
    • a widow’s pension
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    Word OriginOld English widewe, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘be empty’; compare with Sanskrit vidh ‘be destitute’, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, and Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’.

widow

verb
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
be widowed
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they widow
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
he / she / it widows
/ˈwɪdəʊz/
/ˈwɪdəʊz/
past simple widowed
/ˈwɪdəʊd/
/ˈwɪdəʊd/
past participle widowed
/ˈwɪdəʊd/
/ˈwɪdəʊd/
-ing form widowing
/ˈwɪdəʊɪŋ/
/ˈwɪdəʊɪŋ/
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  1. if somebody is widowed, their husband or wife has died
    • She was widowed when she was 35.
    Word OriginOld English widewe, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘be empty’; compare with Sanskrit vidh ‘be destitute’, Latin viduus ‘bereft, widowed’, and Greek ēitheos ‘unmarried man’.
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