a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again 寡妇,遗孀,孀妇 ■[with modifier](humorous)a woman whose husband is often away participating in a specified sport or activity (幽默)守活寡的女人(指丈夫沉溺于某运动或活动而被经常弃留家中独自度日的女人) my wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years. 因为我沉迷于高尔夫球,30年来妻子像在守活寡。
(Printing)a last word or short last line of a paragraph falling at the top of a page or column and considered undesirable (印刷)未排足的行,单词行
a widowbird 寡妇鸟
verb
[withobj.][usu. asadj.widowed]make into a widow or widower 使成寡妇,使成鳏夫 she had to care for her widowed mother. 她得照顾孀居的母亲。
语源
Old 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'