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[ˈwɪdəʊ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a woman who has lost her spouse by death and has not married again
- a last word or short last line of a paragraph falling at the top of a page or column and considered undesirable
- a widowbird
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Origin
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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’
[ˈwɪdəʊ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- become a widow or widower; lose one's spouse through death
(e.g: he was recently widowed)
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Origin
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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’
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