widow
noun /ˈwɪdəʊ/
/ˈwɪdəʊ/
- a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not married again
寡妇；遗孀 - She gets a widow’s pension.
她得到一笔寡妇抚恤金。
WordfinderTopics Life stagesc1- care home
- dementia
- frail
- geriatric
- mobility
- the old
- pensioner
- retire
- sprightly
- widow
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- grieving
- elderly
- middle-aged
- …
- become
- leave
- marry
- …
- a widow’s pension
词源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’. - She gets a widow’s pension.