a woman whose husband has died and who has not married again She gets a widow’s pension. Wordfinderoldcare home, dementia, frail, geriatric, mobility, the old, pensioner, retire, sprightly, widow Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivegrieving, elderly, middle-aged, … verb + widowbecome, leave, marry, … phrasesa widow’s pension See full entry 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’.
Check pronunciation: widow
