Definition of "widow" in English

noun

1. A person whose spouse is absent:

2. (card games) An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.

3. (typography) A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.

4. Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).

verb

1. (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.

2. (transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To endow with a widow's right.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To be widow to.