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词组 widow
释义 widow

'widow'


You say that a woman is a widow when her husband has died and she has not married again.
I had been a widow for five years.

When a man has died, you can refer to his wife as his widow.
His savings had been left to his widow.
...Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King.


'widower'


You say that a man is a widower when his wife has died and he has not married again.
Mr Starke, a widower, owned the practice.

However, when a woman has died, you do not refer to her husband as 'her widower'.

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