widow
A person whose spouse is absent:
Noun 3 meanings
A person whose spouse is absent:
An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
Verb 2 meanings
To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
To strip of anything valued.
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English widwe, 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.
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WIDOW at a glance
WIDOW has 5 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (W 4 + I 1 + D 2 + O 1 + W 4) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,217 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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