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say it: WID-oh
widow is a noun and verb meaning "a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried". It is pronounced /ˈwɪdoʊ/ — WID-oh. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
cause to be without a spouse
“The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for widow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.