widow

noun

• 1a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again.
• [with modifier] humorous a woman whose husband is often away participating in a specified sport or activity:my wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years

• 2 Printing a last word or short last line of a paragraph falling at the top of a page or column and considered undesirable.

• 3a widowbird.

verb

• become a widow or widower:he was recently widowed (as adjective widowed)her widowed mother