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A woman left with an empty place beside her: her husband has died and she has not remarried. The word names not just the loss but the standing she has afterwards — she is still identified by the marriage that ended.
可以想成一個人身邊的位置空了下來：丈夫過世了，之後也沒有再婚，widow 講的就是這樣的女性。它不只是說「失去」這件…更多收起
可以想成一個人身邊的位置空了下來：丈夫過世了，之後也沒有再婚，widow 講的就是這樣的女性。它不只是說「失去」這件事，也是在說她之後的身分——外人提到她時，仍然是用那段結束了的婚姻來定位她。原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
widownoun/ˈwɪd.əʊ/
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A person whose spouse is absent:
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A person whose spouse is absent:
- Now that he is a widow, he tries to win Olivia back through the songs and the music that brought them together all those years ago, leaving Olivia torn between moving forward with Josh or falling into the arms of the man she truly loves.
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informalA person whose spouse is absent:
- My aunt is a football widow in the fall and a basketball widow in the winter and early spring.
- I had been feeling like a bowling-alley widow, but knew he loved the game, so I suggested we join a mixed league.
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card-gamesgamesAn additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
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mediapublishingtypographyA single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
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Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).
widowverb/ˈwɪd.əʊ/
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To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
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To strip of anything valued.
- Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now, My friend, the brother of my love. My Arthur! whom I shall not see Till all my widow’d race be run; Dear as the mother to the son, More than my brothers are to me.
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obsoleteTo endow with a widow's right.
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obsoleteTo be widow to.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。