■ noun
1》 a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again.
↘ humorous a woman whose husband is often away participating in a specified sport or activity: a golf ~.
2》 Printing a last word or short last line of a paragraph falling at the top of a page or column.
■ verb ( be ~ed ) become a ~ or ~er.
Origin
OE widewe , from an Indo-Eur. root meaning 'be empty'.