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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寡妇；遗孀
    • She gets a widow’s pension.她得到寡妇的退休金。
    see also black widow, grass widow
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    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使丧偶；使成为寡妇（或鳏夫）
    • She was widowed when she was 35.她 35 岁时就守了寡。🔊🔊
    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’.