[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


Phrases:

Origin:
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)


Phrases:

Origin:
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’