单词 | widow |
释义 | widow —widowly, adj. /wid"oh/, n. 1. a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not remarried. 2. Cards. an additional hand or part of a hand, as one dealt to the table. 3. Print. a. a short last line of a paragraph, esp. one less than half of the full measure or one consisting of only a single word. b. the last line of a paragraph when it is carried over to the top of the following page away from the rest of the paragraph. Cf. orphan (def. 4). 4. a woman often left alone because her husband devotes his free time to a hobby or sport (used in combination). Cf. golf widow. v.t. 5. to make (someone) a widow: She was widowed by the war. 6. to deprive of anything cherished or needed: A surprise attack widowed the army of its supplies. 7. Obs. a. to endow with a widow's right. b. to survive as the widow of. [bef. 900; (n.) ME wid(e)we, OE widuwe, wydewe; c. G Witwe, Goth widuwo, L vidua (fem. of viduus bereaved), Skt vidhava widow; (v.) ME, deriv. of the n.] |
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