widow
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
cause to be without a spouse
The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia
Types & categories
- leave behind hypernym
Related & opposite
- widow derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | widowhood |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | widowhood |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | widow |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | woman |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dowager |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | war widow |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | widow |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | leave behind |