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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈwɪd.əʊ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈwɪd.oʊ/
• ハイフネーション: wid‧ow
• 韻: -ɪdəʊ

名詞

widow (plural widows)

1. A person whose spouse is absent:
   1. A person who has lost a spouse and not remarried:
      1. A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
      2. (uncommon) Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
         • 2016 June 23, Traciy Reyes, “‘The Wedding March’: Hallmark Movie — June Bride Unwittingly Hires Wedding Singer Who Is Her Ex, Starring Josie Bissett, Jack Wagner”, in The Inquisitr News:

           Now that he is a widow, he tries to win Olivia back through the songs and the music that brought them together all those years ago, leaving Olivia torn between moving forward with Josh or falling into the arms of the man she truly loves.

   2. (by extension, informal, often humorous or sarcastic, in combination) A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.

      My aunt is a football widow in the fall and a basketball widow in the winter and early spring.

      • 1988 November 27, Emily Parry, “For a Bowling Widow, a Split Isn't Just Two Lonely Pins”, in New York Times:

        I had been feeling like a bowling-alley widow, but knew he loved the game, so I suggested we join a mixed league.

2. (card games) An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.

   Synonym: kitty

3. (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.

   Antonym: orphan

   Hyponym: runt

4. Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).

同意語

• (woman whose spouse has died): widowess
• (man whose spouse has died): widower

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動詞

widow (third-person singular simple present widows, present participle widowing, simple past and past participle widowed)

1. (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2. (transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now,
     My friend, the brother of my love.
     My Arthur! whom I shall not see
     ⁠Till all my widow’d race be run;
     ⁠Dear as the mother to the son,
     More than my brothers are to me.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To be widow to.