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A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.
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To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
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To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.
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a woman who has outlived the man to whom she was married at the time of his death; especially, such a woman who has not remarried.
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A woman who was married but whose husband has died.
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a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
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a comforting book that greatly helped me after my husband was killed in an explosion
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a lady whose husband has died
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a wife without a man
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a woman who no longer has a husband
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a woman whose husband had died and who has not married again
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a woman whose husband is dead, a woman who has now to live a dead sort of life
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A female whose spouse has died.
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The person who you are legally married to when you die. An ex-husband or ex-wife you are legally divorced from cannot receive a widow's or widower's pension. If you marry after leaving classic, the widow's pension is based on your service from 6 April 1978 and the widower's pension is based on your service from 6 April 1988.
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a woman (or man) whose spouse has died and who has not remarried.
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a widow is a woman whose husband has died.
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Wife of a writer.
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A woman who has not remarried following the death of her husband.
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You are the widow/widower of the insured person if, at the time the insured person died: You and the insured person were validly married or You would have the status of a husband or a wife for that person’s personal property if they had no will or You went through a marriage ceremony in good faith that would have been valid except for a legal impediment. The minimum age for Disabled widows benefits is age 50. Retirement for widows is age 60.
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