1. A woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
   "The widow woman lived alone in the old farmhouse";
   - widow woman, relict [archaic]
    
2. [informal] A woman whose husband is often away
   "She became a golf widow every weekend during the summer";
   - grass widow
    
3. (printing) a single last word or line carried over to the next page or column
   "The editor tried to eliminate widows from the layout"

1. Cause to be without a spouse
   "The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia"

Derived forms: widows, widowing, widowed

Type of: adult female, leave, leave behind, woman

Encyclopedia: Widow, Weep for Me