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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- grieving
- elderly
- middle-aged
- …
- become
- leave
- marry
- …
- a widow’s pension
Word OriginOld 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’.