Widow

['wɪdəʊ] or ['wɪdo]

解释:

(noun.) a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried.

(verb.) cause to be without a spouse; 'The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia'.

杰拉尔丁校对--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A woman who has lost her husband by death, and has not married again; one living bereaved of a husband.

(a.) Widowed.

(v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.

(v. t.) To deprive of one who is loved; to strip of anything beloved or highly esteemed; to make desolate or bare; to bereave.

(v. t.) To endow with a widow's right.

(v. t.) To become, or survive as, the widow of.

手打:西格蒙德

解释:

n. a woman who has lost her husband by death.—v.t. to bereave of a husband: to strip of anything valued: (Shak.) to endow with a widow's right: to be widow to.—ns. Wid′ow-bench a widow's share of her husband's estate besides her jointure; Wid′ow-bewitched′ a grass-widow; Wid′ow-bird a corruption of Whydah-bird; Wid′ower a man whose wife is dead; Wid′owerhood; Wid′owhood state of being a widow or (rarely) of being a widower: (Shak.) a widow's right; Wid′ow-hun′ter one who seeks to marry a widow for her money; Wid′ow-mā′ker one who bereaves women of their husbands; Wid′ow's-cham′ber the apparel and bedroom furniture of the widow of a London freeman to which she was entitled; Wid′ow-wail a dwarf shrub with pink sweet-scented flowers native to Spain and southern France.—Widow's lawn a fine thin muslin; Widow's man a fictitious person; Widow's silk a silk fabric with dull surface for mournings; Widow's weeds the mourning dress of a widow.

雅克校对

娱乐性解释:

To dream that you are a widow, foretells that you will have many troubles through malicious persons. For a man to dream that he marries a widow, denotes he will see some cherished undertaking crumble down in disappointment.

校对:鲁本

娱乐性解释:

n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

编辑:特鲁迪

娱乐性解释:

The wife of a golfer during the open season, unless she golfs, too. In that event the children are golf orphans.

爱德华整理

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