widow

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

widows

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.
Đồng nghĩa: kitty
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).

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

widows

V_ing/Gerund

widowing

V_ed/pp

widowed

1.
(transitive)To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To strip of anything valued.
3.
(obsolete, transitive)To endow with a widow's right.
4.
(obsolete, transitive)To be widow to.

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Đồng nghĩa

kittywidowesswidowerwoman whose spouse has died widowessman whose spouse has died widower

Trái nghĩa

orphan

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Nguồn gốc từ

dwóh₁ From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe (widow), from *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 widu, wudu.