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WIDOW WOMAN

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried

Synonyms:

widow; widow woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("widow woman" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "widow woman"):

dowager (a widow holding property received from her deceased husband)

war widow (a woman whose husband has died in war)

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