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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