widow

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɪd.əʊ/    美 /ˈwɪd.oʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person whose spouse is absent:; A person who has lost a spouse and hasn't remarried:; A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
  2. A person whose spouse is absent:; A person who has lost a spouse and hasn't remarried:; Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried). uncommon
    — Now that he is a widow, he tries to win Olivia back through the songs and the music that brought them together all those years ago, leaving Olivia torn between moving forward with Josh or falling into the arms of the man she truly loves.
  3. A person whose spouse is absent:; A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc. broadly,humorous,in-compounds,informal,often
    — My aunt is a football widow in the fall and a basketball widow in the winter and early spring.
  4. An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
  5. A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
  6. Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).
动词 v.
  1. To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of. transitive
  2. To strip of anything valued. figuratively,transitive
    — Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now, My friend, the brother of my love. My Arthur! whom I shall not see ⁠Till all my widow’d race be run; ⁠Dear as the mother to the son, More than my brothers are to me.
  3. To endow with a widow's right. obsolete,transitive
  4. To be widow to. obsolete,transitive

词形变化

widows plural widows present,singular,third-person widowing participle,present widowed participle,past widowed past

词汇关系

近义词
widowess widower
衍生词
alpha widow black widow chuck-will's-widow Dutch widow false widow golf widow grass widow half-widow hempen widow hemp-widow merry widow military widow trans widow war widow widow bewitched widow bird widow cleansing widow finch widow foreclosure widow-hunter widow inheritance widow maker widow-maker widow monkey widow's mite widow-wail
相关词
vidual widowed widower widowhood

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂
Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ
Proto-West Germanic *widuwā
Old English widuwe
Middle English widwe
English widow
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English widow, from Old English widuwe (“widow”), from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā (“widow”), from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ (“widow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (“widow”), possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots weedae, wedow, widdow (“widow”), Cimbrian bittaba (“widow”), Dutch weduwe, weeuw (“widow”), German Witwe (“widow”), Vilamovian wytwa (“widow”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō, “widow”), Old Irish fedb (“widow”), Welsh gweddw (“widow”), Asturian and Spanish viuda (“widow”), Aragonese and Latin vidua (“widow”), Catalan vídua (“widow”), French veuve (“widow”), Galician and Portuguese viúva (“widow”), Italian vedova (“widow”), Romanian văduvă (“widow”), Ancient Greek ἠΐθεος (ēḯtheos, “bachelor”), Albanian ve (“widow, widower”), Belarusian удава́ (udavá, “widow”), Czech, Slovak, and Slovene vdova (“widow”), Polish gdowa, wdowa (“widow”), Russian and Ukrainian вдова́ (vdová, “widow”), Serbo-Croatian udova, у̀дова (“widow”), Central Kurdish بێوە (bêwe, “widow”), Ossetian идӕдз (idæʒ, “widowed”), Persian بیوه (bive, bêva, “widow”), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā, “widow”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂
Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ
Proto-West Germanic *widuwā
Old English widuwe
Middle English widwe
English widow
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English widow, from Old English widuwe (“widow”), from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā (“widow”), from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ (“widow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (“widow”), possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots weedae, wedow, widdow (“widow”), Cimbrian bittaba (“widow”), Dutch weduwe, weeuw (“widow”), German Witwe (“widow”), Vilamovian wytwa (“widow”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō, “widow”), Old Irish fedb (“widow”), Welsh gweddw (“widow”), Asturian and Spanish viuda (“widow”), Aragonese and Latin vidua (“widow”), Catalan vídua (“widow”), French veuve (“widow”), Galician and Portuguese viúva (“widow”), Italian vedova (“widow”), Romanian văduvă (“widow”), Ancient Greek ἠΐθεος (ēḯtheos, “bachelor”), Albanian ve (“widow, widower”), Belarusian удава́ (udavá, “widow”), Czech, Slovak, and Slovene vdova (“widow”), Polish gdowa, wdowa (“widow”), Russian and Ukrainian вдова́ (vdová, “widow”), Serbo-Croatian udova, у̀дова (“widow”), Central Kurdish بێوە (bêwe, “widow”), Ossetian идӕдз (idæʒ, “widowed”), Persian بیوه (bive, bêva, “widow”), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā, “widow”).
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